06/18/2004 6:09 AM
post4385
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Comments
Many of the attributes just state that they are optional and not what their cardinality is.
Charge Attribute: Should be of type float so that charging can be done in fractional units
Status Attribute: Should be of type QNAME so that states are all machine-readable and so that all systems can agree upon
the interpretation of the states (or at least recognize that they do not recognize the state!) As it is, if a record
contains an '8' because of a state that you do not represent, nothing else on the planet will stand a chance to
understand it!
Network, Disk, Memory Attributes: type should be float to account for reporting in terms of fractions of a unit (e.g.
half a megabyte) and with rate-related units it is not clear how to combine the units language to describe them.
Network Attribute: Missing word from description of "min" metric.
WallDuration, CpuDuration Attributes: Type must be interval/duration and not timestamp, since timestamps cannot measure
a length of time (they only record an instant or event).
ProjectName Attribute: Bad grammar in second sentence of descriptive text.
Swap Attribute: Does this have units? Could we have some more descriptive text here?
ServiceLevel Attribute: Silly error in first bullet point.
Supported Data Types: You need to add interval/duration to this.
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