On: Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:11:26AM -0500,Bob Cronin Wrote: } Think of my love of using the random approach this way ... let's say all the } workers are idle ALL the time. If I did not pick one at random then the } first one on my list would always get ALL the work. I realize it doesn't } make a difference as long as the work gets done, but for me personally, I } would rather see all the servers doing approximately the same amount of } work. I know, its insane, but I am funny that way, and I am not going to get } over my personal peccadilloes this late in life, so humor me, willya? ;-)
OK, consider yourself humored. :-) The simplist way to do this is a simple round robin. Say you have 10 servers, WORKER0, WORKER1,,,,,WORKER9. UNTESTED rexx (could probably be done in a pipe also): /* Start here when spool file nnnn arrives. */ n = n + 1 /* Unitial value of n = 9 */ if n > 9 /* Thats a greater than sign. */ then n = 0 'CP TRANSFER * RDR' nnnn 'to WORKER' || n 'RDR /* For safety put some code that checks to see how many rdr files WORKERn has and trigger some recovery if too many. */ exit -- Rich Greenberg Sarasota, FL, USA richgr atsign panix.com + 1 941 378 2097 Eastern time. N6LRT I speak for myself & my dogs only. VM'er since CP-67 Canines: Val, Red, Shasta, Zero & Casey (At the bridge) Owner:Chinook-L Canines: Red & Cinnar (Siberians) Retired at the beach Asst Owner:Sibernet-L
