From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] cpu(1) design...
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 10:57:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1e02bca77cfa379ac48a1b4830204a78@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10711090746l41449933ya48792efc15885b3@mail.gmail.com>
>>
>> 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. :-)
why not move the decision of who picks up the job to the cpu server?
this would solve the race.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-09 15:57 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
2007-11-09 15:57 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2007-11-09 14:52 ` erik quanstrom
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