Re: (PM) load balancing (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@megazone.org)
Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:42:52 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Jake Messinger shaped the electrons to say...
>so that they could stop writing platform dependent software. I would LIKE
>to see a Java version of in.pmd.

Good luck. in.pmd interfaces at a low level with the TTYs on each UNIX.
The reason in.pmd died was that each UNIX does TTYs differently - AND they
tend to change them arbitrarily and regularly. Keeping up with that, in
light of the steadily decreasing demand, doomed it. Work load goes up as
return goes down.

>In.pmd is still advertised as a Livingston feature yet they have dropped
>support for it. Or is this just the linux version? I got it running on
>2.0.33 but it does not seem to do anything...

Last I knew there were no longer any engineers actively working on in.pmd.
I expect that if OSes change and the existing version breaks, they'll just
remove it from the feature list until it is no more. Personally I think it
should be removed from the list and made an unsupported 'as-is' item at
this point. Either that or replace it with something, but that doesn't
seem likely with the overall direction of the market.

-MZ

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