WG: [omniORB] load balancing example

[Schmidmeier, Arno]

There is also a big discussion about load balancing in "Enterprise =
CORBA"
from SLAMA, et. al.
A good discussion about load balancing is also found in, a book called
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like "CORBA Management" from Claudia Linnhof-Popien. (Name repeated =
from
memory, so please appologize any mistakes).
Unfortuantley for the non german speaking community, this book in =
german.


I consider a good load balancing strategy as a very good tool, but =
there are
some points which you should think of:
Load balancing increases in most cases the performance, but there are =
some
cases possible, where load balanacing could lead to a performance =
drawback.
(See the article "some myth about load balancing", unfortuantely I do =
not
have the author at hand.)

However it is very important to consider the loadbalancing strategy.
A "unlucky" choosen load-balancing strategy (like round robin) could =
have a
negative impact to overall performance.=20
See some articles from Schiemann.

Additional do not underestimate the additional overhead for the load
balancing.
So prefere a load placement strategy, than a dynamic load switching
strategy.

I hope this information might be usefull for somebody.

Arno Schmidmeier

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> -----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:	James M. Moe [SMTP:moe_jim@burr-brown.com]
> Gesendet am:	Mittwoch, 18. August 1999 20:11
> An:	omniORB Mailing List
> Betreff:	Re: [omniORB] load balancing example
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> On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 11:49:22 -0700, Andrew Wong wrote:
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> >Does OmniNames provide some kind of loading balancing as Visibroker?
> >Could somebody point me to some example code of implementing loading
> >balancing with OmniNames?
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>      There is a nice article about CORBA load balancing in the April
> 1999 issue of the "C/C++ Users Journal" (www.cuj.com) The title is
> "CORBA Load Balancing with Visibroker" by Marc Anderson. Although the
> discussion and demo code is for Visibroker, it gives an outline of =
how
> load balancing may be achieved in general.
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> Jim Moe
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