pgbench: Correct for bias in --rate schedule generation.

Previous code gave a mean delay 0.44% below target.  This change also
has the effect of increasing the maximum possible delay.

Fabien COELHO
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Noah Misch 2013-09-25 23:09:50 -04:00
parent 77ae7f7c35
commit c2df45a37c

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* that the series of delays will approximate a Poisson distribution
* centered on the throttle_delay time.
*
* 1000 implies a 6.9 (-log(1/1000)) to 0.0 (log 1.0) delay multiplier.
* 10000 implies a 9.2 (-log(1/10000)) to 0.0 (log 1) delay multiplier,
* and results in a 0.055 % target underestimation bias:
*
* SELECT 1.0/AVG(-LN(i/10000.0)) FROM generate_series(1,10000) AS i;
* = 1.000552717032611116335474
*
* If transactions are too slow or a given wait is shorter than
* a transaction, the next transaction will start right away.
*/
int64 wait = (int64)
throttle_delay * -log(getrand(thread, 1, 1000)/1000.0);
int64 wait = (int64) (throttle_delay *
1.00055271703 * -log(getrand(thread, 1, 10000)/10000.0));
thread->throttle_trigger += wait;