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An experimental library to instrument ruby
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what's the meter algorithm used here? #44

Closed Neway6655 closed 10 years ago

Neway6655 commented 10 years ago

Hi,

I am using the Metrics plugin in logstash, and want to know how it works, then i found this repo, so i want to know what's the meter's calculation algorithm here, i have already read the code ewma,rb, but not quite understand it (especially what's the ALPHA means)... Can you explain it a bit?

Neway6655 commented 10 years ago

Close it, I found the algorithm here: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/~graham/pubs/papers/fwddecay.pdf