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From: tamir@CS.UCLA.EDU
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Subject: Re: Load balancing rsh
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Date: Sun, 7-Jun-87 12:52:05 EDT
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In article <17092@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) writes:
#In article <6450@shemp.UCLA.EDU> tamir@CS.UCLA.EDU (Yuval Tamir) writes:
#>In the contrib directory of 4.3 BSD there is a program called dsh
#>that behaves like rsh except that it picks the least loaded
#>machine (out of a list of machines) on which to run the command.
#>...
#>I am looking for a "second generation" version of this program.
#
#      It's amusing to hear this from someone in the UCLA computer
#science department.  See Popek and Walker, "The LOCUS Distributed
#Operating System" (ISBN 0-262-16102-8),  . . .
#      Whatever happened to LOCUS, anyway?

To clear up any misunderstandings:
Locus is alive and well and living on a large number of machines at UCLA!
However, it has not been ported to Suns, IBM RTs, Apollos, or HP workstations.
What I am looking for is a generic 4.[23] BSD program that can be easily
ported to most of these machines.  The functionality I want is *very simple*:
poll some machines for their load average, pick the minimum,
and use rsh to run the program on the least loaded machine.
Input will be through standard input, output will go to standard output.

			   Yuval Tamir

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