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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: Manfreds patch to distribute boot allocations across nodes
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 09:56:29 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

| Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com> wrote:
| >
| > 
| > 
| > On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 11:07:32AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
| > > Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> wrote:
| > > >
| > > >  > Should this not search for the emptiest node?
| > > > 
| > > >  Allocating things round robin avoids a hot node where everything ends up
| > > >  being allocated.
| > > 
| > > Have you any performance measurements for this patch?
| > 
| > Any suggestions on what benchmark to run?
| 
| I guess SDET is the closest thing we have to a "mixed workload".
| -


Cliff White says that re-aim should also work for this.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/re-aim-7/

or use the OSDL STP interface.

--
~Randy