P.S.M.Swamiji wrote:
> On 3/16/2010 3:04 AM, William Yang wrote:
>> Are CPU frequency and count the only things the load balance algorithm
>> considers?

It is consistent with the behaviour we're seeing:

server 1, 4 core opteron 1.8GHz, 6GiB RAM, doesn't support powersaving
server 2, 4 core opteron 2.8GHz, 8GiB RAM, powernow/ondemand freq governor

In theory server 2 should be much more powerful, as it has more RAM and more
powerful cpu's. But since /proc/cpuinfo shows it's clock freq as 1GHz because of
the powernow cpu throttling, server 1 gets all the sessions, and runs out of RAM
long before server 2 starts breaking sweat. As is mentioned on the sun-rays wiki
somewhere, available RAM should be a much more important factor than CPU. I
would much rather have somewhat slower cpu's and lots of free RAM than fast
cpu's twiddling thumbs while waiting for swap.


> It also considers number of sessions running/idle...
>>   That concerns me a bit especially since with recent processors,
>> increasing speed no longer necessarily means increasing performance.  Can
>> the LB algorithm be manually tweaked if necessary?

How about an external command (shell script?) that computes the "desirability"
of the server in question? (feature request)

Sammy Atmadja
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