From: Christian Wettergren <cwe@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 95 16:08:05 PDT
To: Piete Brooks <Piete.Brooks@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: server congestion?
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| The design of the prtotocol assumes a hierarchy -- maybe in the next attempt.

Ok, neat. I was merely thinking of a simple static partitioning of it
right now.

| but there are problems with acking to the right server, deciding which to
| contact, etc.

I was rather thinking of a simplistic solution right now, looking in
the log of active calculators, roughly dividing them up into two
similarly sized groups etc. But I guess this isn't as easy as I
thought it would be.

| > Another thing that might decrease the load on the server
| > is if we start allocating more blocks at a time, lets
| > say 2-4 blocks each time. Wouldn't that help?
| 
| I think most of the load is "HELO COMM QUIT" clients.
| Yes -- we had thought of upping the allocation ....

Ok.

/Christian