you can see, this article is a must read. It's a pitty that it's not
freely available, though.
+.. _howto_churn:
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Modeling Churn in P2P
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If your trace does not contain a LOOPAFTER line, then your profile is
only executed once and not repetitively.
+.. _howto_multicore:
Modeling Multicore Machines
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