jkh@pcsbst.UUCP (jkh) (05/31/89)
Has anyone hacked a simple implementation of remote-stubs.c in GNU
make? I'm not looking for something fancy, just something along the
lines of:
remote-stubs has list of hosts (either compiled in, or in
a file) to try, which it trys in a round-robin fashion (perhaps
favoring some hosts over others using a simple weighting scheme).
All hosts have daemon sitting on socket waiting for a request
to do something. They're passed the command to execute and the
environment to give it. The assumption is that the CWD for the command
is directly accessable via some network filesystem and that
permissions are not a problem.
I know that this certainly isn't the best solution, but it gets around
system dependent code to try and figure out the load average, whether
the machine is being used interactively, etc etc. That can always be added
in later.
I am just interested in seeing what sorts of results are obtained with,
say, 4 or 5 machines doing parallel compiles with NFS. Bending security
and/or annoying interactive users isn't much of an issue for this test.
Has anyone done this? If not, I'll just do it myself.
Thanks.
Jordan
jkh@violet.berkeley.edu
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Jordan Hubbard
PCS Computer Systeme GmbH
West Germany
UUCP: {uunet,decwrl}!pyramid!pcsbst!jkh
ARPA: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu
Hey! Leave that alone!