use Tick Tuple.
On 2014年3月6日, at 上午4:28, Tian Guo <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am developing some data analysis algorithms on top of Storm and have some 
> questions about the internal design of Storm. 
> 
> I want to simulate a sensor data yielding and processing in Storm, and 
> therefore I use Spout to push sensor data into the succeeding bolts at a 
> constant time interval via setting a sleep method in nextTuple method of 
> Spout. But from the experiment results, it appeared that spout didn't push 
> data at the specified rate. In the experiment, there was no bottleneck bolt 
> in the system. 
> 
> Therefore, my doubt is if the nextTuple method is called only when the 
> previous tuples are fully processed and acked in the ack method? 
> 
> If this is true, does it means that I cannot set a fixed time interval to 
> emit data?
> 
> Thx a lot!

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