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List:       ms-dcom
Subject:    Re: Scalability of MTS (was: RE: Question about MTS)
From:       "Box, Don" <dbox () DEVELOP ! COM>
Date:       1999-04-30 17:02:54
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Casey, Chance [mailto:CCasey@COAIR.COM]
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 1999 9:43 AM
> To: DCOM@DISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM
> Subject: Re: Scalability of MTS (was: RE: Question about MTS)
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> Why not wrap your components in a "load balancing component"?
> This "lbc" can call make the necessary win32 API calls to check
> the local load and "periodically" "advertise" to other lbc's. Then,
> the "chief" lbc can forward requests to other, less busy, servers.
> Attention smart guys - I have talked about this before, but never
> implemented it. Am I crazy, or is this easily do-able?

While I am not an expert in these matters, nothing in this email seems to
indicate that you are crazy. In fact, I know of one smart guy (Tim Ewald)
who wrote a framework for doing this last month and uploaded it somewhere at
DM. Check the archives of this list for the exact URL.

DB
http://www.develop.com/dbox

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