[K12OSN] RE:Load balancing

Sean Harbour SHarbour at nwresd.k12.or.us
Tue Mar 8 04:51:40 UTC 2005


>Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 13:23:15 -0500
>From: "Burt Carter" <bcarter at jchs.com>
>Subject: [K12OSN] load balancing
>To: <k12OSN at redhat.com>
>Message-ID: <002a01c52342$ba74d600$21690a0a at TechOffice>
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>I have 2 LTSP servers and I want to find a way to balance clients
>connecting to them.  So if I have 50 clients connected 25 will be on one
>server and 25 on the other.  I have been assigning 25 ip address to the
>dhcp server on each, that way the server will service 25 clients and no
>more. 

>Thanks,
>Burt Carter

Someone on the list a year or two ago mentioned that they had XDM(GDM?) setup so the users could choose which server they logged into. This was apparently very effective as the users quickly learned they could log into the faster server, letting them load balance themselves. Not very elegant, but it sounded effective. Just an idea, I wonder if the logon screen could be easily modified to show updated utilization stats of some sort of all the available servers? Or has someone done this already

Sean Harbour
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