From: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:50:32 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: remote-create: document load-balancing algorithm
X-Git-Tag: sipb-xen-remote-server/0.2^0
X-Git-Url: http://xvm.mit.edu/gitweb/invirt/packages/invirt-remote.git/commitdiff_plain/3f4a619371f8d077190f612c7dcff8611d6f5eb6?hp=d2a643d6a51efb55e24eb569328aac0f61eeb615

remote-create: document load-balancing algorithm

We take the host with more RAM free.

svn path=/trunk/packages/sipb-xen-remote-server/; revision=665
---

diff --git a/files/usr/sbin/sipb-xen-remote-create b/files/usr/sbin/sipb-xen-remote-create
index 4483ce1..214097f 100755
--- a/files/usr/sbin/sipb-xen-remote-create
+++ b/files/usr/sbin/sipb-xen-remote-create
@@ -2,10 +2,7 @@
 """
 Picks a host to "create" (boot) a VM on, and does so.
 
-For now, a very dumb algorithm for which host to boot on:
-the one with fewer machines running.
-
-TODO: load-balance based on something like actual free RAM
+Current load-balancing algorithm: wherever there's more free RAM.
 
 TODO: use a lock to avoid creating the same VM twice in a race
 """