d2b@rayssd.RAY.COM (Donald A. Borsay) (09/15/87)
The August issue of Digital Review made reference to a new product called "VAX Dynamic Load Balancer" by Touch Technologies Inc. Has anyone else heard of the package, good or bad? Apparently it is "analogous to having a VAX system manager monitor and tune [the system] on a non-stop basis". Don |Raytheon Company, Submarine Signal Division, Portsmouth, RI Borsay |ARPAnet: d2b%rayssd.RAY.COM@a.cs.uiuc.edu |UUCPmail: {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus!raybed2}!rayssd!d2b -- Don |Raytheon Company, Submarine Signal Division, Portsmouth, RI Borsay |ARPAnet: d2b%rayssd.RAY.COM@a.cs.uiuc.edu |UUCPmail: {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus!raybed2}!rayssd!d2b
Walter_A_Schwarz@cup.portal.com.UUCP (10/01/87)
The company that I work for in San Francisco is currently testing the dynamic load balancing program. We have 6 11/780's, and 7 MicroVax II's all in a network of Ethernet, DecNet and 19.2KB data lines. Once that load balancer started running, we instantly saw that hard page faults dropped 35%. We also had 5 meg of memory become available that was able to be re-allocated to other resources. All in all, it does pretty good of managing system resources.