On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:12:48 -0500
Rob Latham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The time is in seconds.
> > I think it is rather significant.
> > Starting a job using rsh for 60 nodes takes only 4 seconds,
> > but running ssh for 60 nodes in sequence takes more than 20
> > seconds.
>
> ... and when your 3 day comput job takes an extra 20 seconds to start
> up, you can pat yourself on the back for finding a .00008 %
> improvement.
... and for a 0.1-second computing task of obtaining the load average
of hosts, running through 1000 computer nodes, it will make a big
difference.
cheers,
junichi
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