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I'm trying to identify patterns among various "paths" like the following: http://i.imgur.com/bQPI3.png If I plot these, I can observe intuitively two different patterns: a front loaded (1 and 3) and a backloaded (2,4) progress path: http://i.imgur.com/L5qwZ.png I have thousands of observations like the above table, and I want to use R to identify clusters of these paths. I looked at spatstat, but it seems more relevant to points than paths. Thanks, bp [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...ists of two ldap providers, in mirror mode, serving over a shared virtual IP. Client-facing services are provided by 4 consumers, most of which are accessed over a layer 4 load balancer. Periodically, the consumers encounter some sort of client request(s) which consume all available threads, cause backload threads to spike, and cause slapd to go unresponsive for a long period of time. I've no idea what is causing these events, or if there is anything in the configurations that I can tweak to help. Anyone have any ideas?