This is the Schedule::Load Perl Package. Copyright ========= This package is Copyright 2000 by Wilson Snyder . You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file, with the exception that it cannot be placed on a CD-ROM or similar media for commercial distribution without the prior approval of the author. This code is provided with no warranty of any kind, and is used entirely at your own risk. Description =========== This package allows accessing loading and top job status across many machines on a network, comprising a server farm. It also allows for scheduling new jobs on the best machine across the entire network. For example: rtop HOST CPUs FREQ TotCPU% LOAD RATE RL ARCH/OS alpha 8 400 27.9% 2 17.12 sun4-solaris 2.6 omega 1 333 0.2% 1 inf R1 Reserved: qzurns at 17-Jan 10:29 beta 6 248 69.4% 5 19.46 sun4-solaris 2.6 HOST PID USER NICE MEM STATE RUNTM CPU% COMMAND beta 4678 qmullens 0 34M cpu1 3:04 12.4% vt urx/urx_cell_ms alpha 4047 charlieg 19 147M cpu9 16:44 12.4% dc_shell ccr_iorg rschedule best Best host is 'alpha' Perl functions provide object oriented access to all of this information and more. Also included is a program to warn of jobs with over two hours of CPU time, renice them to 19 and send mail to the offending user. See `man Schedule::Load' after installation. Obtaining Distribution ====================== The latest version is available at `http://www.perl.org/CPAN/' Download the latest package from that site, and decompress. `gunzip Schedule::Load_version.tar.gz ; tar xvf Schedule::Load_version.tar' Supported Systems ================= This version of Schedule::Load has been built and tested on: * sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1 * i386-linux It should run on any Unix system with perl and TCP/IP socketing, provided that the required perl modules below are ported to the platform. Installation ============ 1. Before installing this module, you need the following modules available from CPAN: Storable (tested with 0.6.5) Proc::ProcessTable; (tested with 0.23) Unix::Processors; (tested with 1.6) 2. `cd' to the directory containing this README notice. 3. Type `perl Makefile.PL' to configure Schedule::Load for your system. 4. Type `make' to compile Schedule::Load. 5. Type `make test' to check the compilation. 6. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and documentation.