Re: [9fans] Process distribution?

[a@9srv.net]

i suspect a random distribution of processes would yield worse
results than you expect. you really want a scheduler of sorts
that'll find the most appropriate system to run your proc on.

i think the process dispatch stuff you're looking for can all
be done in user mode, with just an app that essentially calls
cpu and does a few namespace ops. the slightly trickier part
(still not *too* hard) is choosing who to dispatch to, but i
think that can be managed properly by having the participating
cpu servers provide their own status information and have a
dispatch daemon on the client poll them when an app needs to
be dispatched. you could even define a way for the app to
specify its resource requirements to the dispatch daemon.

i really should look at the plan 9 and inferno grid stuff.

i forget\0 (and drawterm doesn't work from behind my work
firewall right now): does cpu preserve stdout and stderr?

things get tricky - downright *hard* - when you start
looking for a clean way to do process *migration*.
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