bdoyle0182 commented on a change in pull request #5110:
URL: https://github.com/apache/openwhisk/pull/5110#discussion_r657485433
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File path:
common/scala/src/main/scala/org/apache/openwhisk/common/AverageRingBuffer.scala
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+package org.apache.openwhisk.common
+
+object AverageRingBuffer {
+ def apply(maxSize: Int) = new AverageRingBuffer(maxSize)
+}
+
+/**
+ * This buffer provides the average of the given elements.
+ * The number of elements are limited and the first element is removed if the
maximum size is reached.
+ * Since it is based on the Vector, its operation takes effectively constant
time.
+ * For more details, please visit
https://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/collections/performance-characteristics.html
+ *
+ * @param maxSize the maximum size of the buffer
+ */
+class AverageRingBuffer(private val maxSize: Int) {
Review comment:
What was the reasoning for picking average as the heuristic. Would
median be a better heuristic here? i.e. if all activations take 100
milliseconds and then one activation has a slow call to a db that will heavily
skew the average.
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