From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 1 10:28:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17872 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:28:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA17817 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:27:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id KAA20844; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:27:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma020840; Wed Jul 1 10:26:57 1998 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id KAA10777; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:26:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199807011726.KAA10777@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: Anyone interested in an "interesting" project idea? In-Reply-To: <11704.899261964@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jun 30, 98 07:59:24 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:26:56 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > typedef struct _pid_t { u_int hostid : 8; u_int pid : 24; } pid_t; Hmm.. it may be worth reading, e.g., the papers from the Sprite project (headed by John Osterhout) on their process migration system where process would dynamically move from host to host to balance out the load. Bottom line: it was very complicated and messy. What you're suggesting is not nearly as complicated (no migration of processes) but is likely to touch many of the same issues... and these are issues that others have confronted before. "Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it." :-) -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message