bproc for LVS, [was Re: [lvs-users] New to LVS]

[Joseph Mack <mack@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Julian Anastasov wrote:

>       From my experience with real servers for web, the only
> useful parameters for the real server load are:
> 
>       - cpu idle time

>       - free ram

>       - free swap

>       So, the monitoring software must send these parameters
> to all directors.

The beowulf people have similar interests in determining the
load of members of a cluster. The bproc file system is a superset
of all of the proc file systems and any node has access to any other
node's proc (I think the procs on other machines are read-only).

Joe 
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