Changing the Topology to Get Stability (cont.)

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I have been working one the re-configuration of the experimental analysis topology to try and get stability, and it's been a lot more difficult than I had expected. What I'm getting looks a lot like this:

Instability

and that's no good.

Sadly, the problem is not at all easy to solve. What I'm seeing when I dig into the Capacity numbers for the bolts are that there's only one of the 300+ bolts that has a capacity number that exceeds 1.000 - and then by a lot. But all the others are less than 0.200 - well under control. So why?

I've looked at logs, I've looked at the logs - nothing... I've looked at the tuples moving through the bolts, and interestingly, found that many of them just aren't moving any tuples. Why? no clue, but it's easy enough to scale it back to me a more efficient topology.

What I've come away with is the idea that might be the different way we're dealing with the data. So this weekend, if I have time, I'll dig in and see what I can do to make this more even between the two. It's not obvious, but then - that's 0.9.0.1 software.