radlab/sparrow — comment on commit cece441969f9516db2af6405f05e26a7576bd4ea
File: src/main/java/edu/berkeley/sparrow/prototype/ProtoBackend.java line 54
By kayousterhout:

You say what this is used for, but what value does the variable actually take on?? The number of currently running tasks? The total number of tasks ever run? The number of queued tasks?