On Nov 9, 2007 7:33 AM, Steve Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was imagining somthing like the load balancing code I have seen for Unix, > each box multicasts a load estimate regularly and a local daemon picks these > up > and answers "which is the least loaded machine" requests; obviously I also > imagined a much more elegant solution for a plan9 environment...
see andrey's thesis. Mount a mon server and you have a file system of servers. Then you can just read the files, pick the least loaded one, and run on it. Along with the other 400 people who just picked that least-loaded node but hey, that's the inherent race conditions you get. :-) ron
