cogswell@egrunix.UUCP (Dan Cogswell) (11/17/89)
This is the wrong newsgroup for this, but I'm using an Amiga, and the people here are some of the smarter on the net, so here goes: I'm writing a simulation of a disk scheduler employing various scheduling algorithms (First-come-first-serve,Shortest-seek-time-next, etc). In this simulation, a parent process launches 10 child processes, which immediately make requests for certain a "cylinder" from a simulated disk. The wait-time for each process can be easily computed, as can the average wait-time, but how does one computer the "variance of wait-time". Our professor didn't explain this, and feels we should know it! -- Dan Cogswell "Gangster Fun -- It's the beat (313)625-3234 that you can wig-out to..." INET: cogswell@unix.secs.oakland.edu UUCP: cogswell@egrunix.UUCP