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From: rcpieter@svin02.info.win.tue.nl (Tiggr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.large,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Killer Micro Question
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Date: 14 Nov 90 13:06:15 GMT
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randy@ms.uky.edu (Randy Appleton) writes:

>But how does each user, who is about to log in, know which machine to
>log into?  He ought to log into the one with the lowest load average, yet
>without logging on cannot determine which one that is.

Andrew Tanenbaum et al solved this problem by developing Amoeba.  And
far more transparant than logging in onto the server with the lowest
load average.

Tiggr