Generating a constant load of tuples

[Ahmed El Rheddane]

Hello again,

I am trying to generate a regulated load of tuples using a sleep in the 
spout's nextTuple(). However, the observed results show that the number 
of tuples periodically drops by about 200 hundred tuples (from 800 to 600).

I thought that this was due to the way I was monitoring Storm, but the 
behvior has been confirmed by local spout logs.
I haven't set any limit on pending messages and I'm not using any ackers 
anyways.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Cheers,
Ahmed