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Re:Request PG: Could we please have the black bar out for St... by cperciva on Thursday October 06, 2011 @01:10PM (#3080816)
Exponential smoothing and peak estimation won't help with the fundamental problem, which is that warning based on storage costs alone produces the correct result -- in the sense that funds run out after exactly 7 days -- 90% of the time. Any non-trivial addition of bandwidth costs into the equation is going to hurt far more often than it helps.
Re:Request PG: Could we please have the black bar out for St... by diolpah on Thursday October 06, 2011 @08:49PM (#3082199)
Well, it doesn't produce the correct result for us, where bandwidth costs are more than 7 times storage costs, so we get our warning far too late.