[Swift-devel] Support request: Swift jobs flooding uc-teragrid?

[Ioan Raicu]

If MDS will give you this kind of info, and its already available to 
you, then why not use it to determine the load on the remote machine? 

Ben Clifford wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Ioan Raicu wrote:
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>> Here is something that might help Swift determine when the GRAM host is under
>> heavy load, prior to things starting to fail. 
>> Could a simple service be made to run in the same container as the GRAM4
>> service that would expose certain low level information, such as CPU
>>     
>
> That's reinventing MDS!
>
> We used to have a great set of cross-platform submit-host information 
> scripts but for whatever reason decided to abandon them (though they're 
> still used in gLite, I think).
>
>   

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