Hello, Paul, Back in Prague, you mentioned that a number of your scheduler-parameter measurements were poor fits for the exponential distribution. Are they a reasonable fit for a series of exponentially distributed Markov states? For example, would they fit something of the following form? a^2*t*e^(-a*t) Or would a three-step series fit better? (a^3*t^2*e^(-a*t))/2 And there is always the four-step series: (a^4*t^3*e^(-a*t))/6 Or, in general: (a^n*t^(n-1)*e^(-a*t))/(n-1)! But please keep in mind that higher orders multiply my state space by the number of steps in the series. ;-) Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html