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From: shimon@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il (shimon yitzhak)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: Formula that represents the load on work-station
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Date: 26 Jun 91 18:29:07 GMT
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  I'm developing a program that works in parallel on HP-345 (Re. 6.5)
work-stations.
  
  The program uses file servers of the following types:

        HP-375 (Re. 6.5).
        HP-360 (Re. 6.5).
        SUN 3/60 (Re. 4.1.1.).  
  Both the work-stations and the file servers have SCASI disks.

  I'm interested in improving the performance of the software I
developed, by dividing the work between the work-stations according to
the load on each work-station. 
  
  I'm familiar with the parameters fetched from the UNIX rstat and
rnusers commands, but, I'm interested in a formula that will sum-up
the most importand parameters and will end up with one number (scalar)
that will represent the totel load on a work-station.


NOTE: Using the rstat command on a work-station that has a SCASI disk,
doesn't return the  transfer disk parameters.
-- 
Shimon Yitschak
Bar Ilan University, Israel.
Internet: shimon@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il
Binet: shimon@bimacs