... (Ri)Figure 2.1 Uniform distribution (no skew)Highly Skewed010000200003000040000Number of Records (Ri)12345678Processor NumberFigure 2.2 Highly skewed distributionexample, jRjD100;000 ... eachprocessor is uniform as expected—that is, 12,500 records each.In the highly skewed graph (Fig. 2.2), we use θ D 1 to model a high- skewdistribution. The most heavily loaded processor holds more ... it is normally assumed thatwhen the distribution is skewed, it is highly skewed (θ D 1), as we normally usethe worst-case performance to compare with the no-skew case.In the example above,...