I don't recall calling you crazy, but the suggestion was made in the interest of perhaps helping you by not overcomplicating the problem.
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List > [mailto:cms-pipeli...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Cronin > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 7:05 PM > To: CMS-PIPELINES@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: Pick a record at random? > > Not necessarily, it depends on the timing of the queries. > Unless you see something wrong with me wanting to do it this > way, I'd prefer suggestions for how to accomplish it (rather > than suggestions I'm crazy for wanting to do so, 'cos I get > enough of those already ;-). Peace ... > -- > bc > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Paul Gilmartin > <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote: > > > On Jan 4, 2011, at 18:33, Bob Cronin wrote: > > > > > Uh, because if I choose the same worker every time and it does not > > process > > > its spool files faster than they're arriving (common), it will > > > quickly > > get > > > overloaded. I want to spread the load evenly across the > "n" workers. > > > > > No, because once it's processing a spool file, it is no > longer the one > > with the fewest total spool files, and some other worker > will be chosen. > > > > -- gil > > >
