Re: Simulating resources with infinite capacity

Couldn't you you model the RAID controller as a resource with capacity=1 and 
a negligible service time?

Steve

Goedson Teixeira Paixao wrote:
> * Klaus Muller (kgmuller <at> xs4all.nl) wrote:
> 
>>Goedson,
>>What do you want to do with the Resource? What services does the Resource
>>provide? 
> 
> 
> It's a RAID controler. I think the real contention should be done in the 
> individual disks and the controler should be able to handle as many 
> simultaneous requests as it gets.
> 
> 
>>To tease out your answer: what is wrong with
>>"res=Resource(capacity=10000000000)"?
> 
> 
> It's a little ugly. But may be a solution. I think it would be better if I could do:
> "res=Resource(capacity=infinity)"
>  or 
> "res=Resource(unlimitedUnits=True)"
> 
> I'll see if it may work with the no resource option proposed by Tony Vignaux, but I
> would have to use some Monitors to monitor the RAID controler utilization (I'm mainly
> interested in the service times for the requests).
> 
> Regards,
> Goedson
> 
> 
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