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Subject: Re: throttling NFS writes
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On Saturday 19 November 2005 07:31 am, Andrew P. wrote:
= It's also not really hard to write a client-sever system (Perl is good
= for that), where server watches hardware resources on the host and
= clients query them before any activity. Sort of traffic lights. About
= 50-100 lines of Perl code.

Except the database servers (which are the backup clients) run
proprietary software and will not cooperate...

So it needs to be entirely on-sided.

	-mi