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From: djl@mips.UUCP (Dan Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Load balancing rsh
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Date: Tue, 9-Jun-87 16:15:14 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  9 16:15:14 1987
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Summary: An RPC based widget would be more interesting
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Perhaps more interesting in the long term would be a better version of
"on", the RPC based remote execution tool.  If it knew how to use
the facilities of the stat daemon, it could apply a reasonable 
weighted formula to the load information based on CPU type, memory available,
disk type, size of executing image, OS, etc.  This would provide a
truely useful tool, which would run on any box supporting RPC.

The next move, of course, is to teach the shell how to do this for the
general case. Some interesting work was done by some guys at Princeton
on this, they are giving a paper at USENIX on the topic.

-- 
			***dan

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