On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 08:01:18PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Perhaps postscreen should warn when the *average* delay goes over
> some threshold. That would reduce the number of false alarms.
> Maybe I can slip this in before the stable release.
alpha smoothing should do the trick, in this case we can start with
t_0 = 0,
and set
t_{n+1} = 0.95*t_{n} + 0.05*delta
what remains to tune is how often to log warnings, the minimum
spacing between warnings could be either based on the number of
updates since the last warning, or elapsed time.
--
Viktor.
