In order to improve a method to determine the lubricant filling degree of a fluid bearing in which the bearing gap of the fluid bearing is illuminated and the luminous reflectance is analyzed so that the filling degree can be determined in a simple and reproducible manner, it is provided that a spatial intensity profile of the reflected light is recorded. One or more operations that are required to process a query are performed by a coprocessor that is separate from a general purpose microprocessor that executes query processing software. Each cell containing at least one sound energy dissipating layer constituted by hollow spherical beads having mutually contacting walls that are porous and micro-perforated, and being held in position in the thickness direction between the two walls by nets that are secured to the partitions. Uncertainty metrics are applied to the clustered samples to select samples from each cluster that reflect uncertainty in the statistical parser’s grammatical model. The shared resource can then be used for a first aspect of the operation at cycle X and then used for a second aspect of the operation at cycle X+N. The redirected beam post exposes the media to fix these locations against spurious recording.