Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!hubcap!fpst From: fpst@hubcap.UUCP (Steve Stevenson) Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: Message delays Message-ID: <3980@hubcap.UUCP> Date: 26 Dec 88 18:08:23 GMT Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC Lines: 14 Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu Does anyone out there have actual measurements of message delays on loosely coupled systems? In particular, a lot of people assume that the delays have a Poisson distribution. Is there any empirical evidence for this? [ Tom --- Try Dave Poplawski (pop@mtu.edu) and Steve Seidel (steve@mtu) at Michigan Tech -- Steve ]-- Steve Stevenson fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu (aka D. E. Stevenson), fpst@prism.clemson.csnet Department of Computer Science, comp.parallel Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 (803)656-5880.mabell