For #2, I think it makes sense to try out using request rates for cost calculation.
If the experiment result turns out to be better, we can consider using such measure. Thanks On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Timothy Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a couple of questions about the StochasticLoadBalancer. > > 1) In CostFromRegionLoadFunction.getRegionLoadCost the cost is weights > later samples of the RegionLoad more than previous ones. For example, with > a queue size of 4 it would be (.5 * load1 + .25*load2 + .125*load3 + > .125*load4). Is this the intended behavior? > > 2) Would it make more sense to calculate the ReadRequestCost and > WriteRequestCost as rates? Right now it looks like the cost is just based > off the total number of read/write requests a region has gotten over its > lifetime. > > -Tim >
