From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] cpu(1) design...
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 07:46:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10711090746l41449933ya48792efc15885b3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b0253536b29193288440a82cf9881a29@quintile.net>
On Nov 9, 2007 7:33 AM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
>
> I was imagining somthing like the load balancing code I have seen for Unix,
> each box multicasts a load estimate regularly and a local daemon picks these up
> and answers "which is the least loaded machine" requests; obviously I also
> imagined a much more elegant solution for a plan9 environment...
see andrey's thesis. Mount a mon server and you have a file system of
servers. Then you can just read the files, pick the least loaded one,
and run on it.
Along with the other 400 people who just picked that least-loaded node
but hey, that's the inherent race conditions you get. :-)
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-09 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-09 12:50 Steve Simon
2007-11-09 14:40 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-11-09 14:45 ` roger peppe
2007-11-09 14:55 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-11-09 15:33 ` Steve Simon
2007-11-09 15:46 ` ron minnich [this message]
2007-11-09 15:57 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-09 14:52 ` erik quanstrom
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