From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10711090746l41449933ya48792efc15885b3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 07:46:16 -0800 From: "ron minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] cpu(1) design... In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <509071940711090655r445ab903sd820f3ebbb584836@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: f0644c24-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Nov 9, 2007 7:33 AM, Steve Simon 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