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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Info wanted on maitrd/garcon
Message-ID: <7885@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 9 Feb 89 01:43:19 GMT
References: <4120@omepd.UUCP>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <4120@omepd.UUCP> jklah@mipon2.intel.com (JK Lah) writes:
 > Hi guys,
 > 
 > Do you know anybody who has done some work on maitrd/garcon which is 
 > a load balancing system developed at Berkeley a couple years ago?
 > It is a good program but has some room for improvement.

You can say that again.  The situation was: this vax, load=18+,
other vaxen load=0.2 and load=0.5; using maitrd the program will
execute on the loaded vax.  Some improvement is needed indeed.
(It has to do with the fact that maitrd also looks at the number
of users and each window is a user.)
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