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<DIV>Hello,Shahrukh,</DIV>
<DIV> First,what I wonder is that even if the negative value
makes disksim work well, does it make sense to you?</DIV>
<DIV> Second, I advise you to make smooth the trace file
(out of time order)by writing a toolkit. It is not hard.</DIV>
<DIV> Third, I don't know the way you use disksim. Do you use
disksim as a slave module or play the trace with disksim itself? If the latter,
I have no idea. If the former, I have a thread that the syssim.c has a little
bug with respect to calculatiing time.</DIV>
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<DIV> I hope it is useful to you.</DIV>
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<DIV>All the best.</DIV>
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<DIV> Steve</DIV>
<DIV> zgy04@126.com</DIV>
<DIV> 2006-09-17</DIV>
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<DIV>======= 2006-09-17 09:35:05 Shahrukh Rohinton Tarapore Written: =======</DIV>
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<DIV>>Can anyone tell me what happens if I set the time scale parameter to a </DIV>
<DIV>>negative value? I tried running a trace with disk requests spaced very </DIV>
<DIV>>closely together (with respect to time). When I used positive values </DIV>
<DIV>>for the time scale I would get errors that requests in the trace file </DIV>
<DIV>>were out of time order. Only when I set the time scale parameter </DIV>
<DIV>>negative did disksim run through the entire trace without interruption. </DIV>
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<DIV>>I want to be sure that using a negative value doesn't some how skew my </DIV>
<DIV>>results. Thanks.</DIV>
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<DIV>>-- shahrukh</DIV>
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