hey i’ve been searching for this information for years. glad to finally meet someone searching for the same thing. unfortunately cisco’s argument above is quite valid, and it’s rather depressing that we still can’t do this on our home computers. please though, if you have further information, enlighten me. you have my email now so feel free to write me directly. i will do the same if i find anything new.
cheers from sunny bali!
]]>Emacs?? Vim forever! ]]>
Hi everyone, I’m also trying to do this, but I think that installing pf under OSX won’t be so funny, anyway, here is a nice link about load balancing with pf.. ]]>
Nice info! I think the next step would be to make gemset switching even easier, here is how to do it:
$ cd my_project
$ echo ‘rvm 1.9.2@ror3′ > .rvmrc
now, everytime you change to the directory, RVM will switch to the ror3 gemset and it’ll use Ruby 1.9.2.
If you leave the directory the gemset will remain the same, you can change such behavior this way:
$ echo ‘rvm_project_rvmrc_default=1′ >> ~/.rvmrc
now, RVM will switch to the default / system when leaving the directory.
oh, but, I’m pretty sure now you do need to know what’s the current gemset, don’t you?, easy:
Add the following to your current PS1 (which can be found in ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc, etc)
\$(~/.rvm/bin/rvm-prompt)
and you might end up with something like this:
[mackie] ~/projects $ cd my_project
[mackie 1.9.2@ror3] ~/projects/my_project $ cd ..
[mackie] ~/projects $
Enjoy!
]]>You forget to post the links you send me the other day:
http://emacsformacosx.com/ ]]>
Great insights, Polo!
May I suggest emacs as a great alternative to Textmate? 
Cheers.
]]>To me load balancing is computer hardware specific as it pertains to OS & Applications. In this day of multi processors, multi cores those need to be load balanced, otherwise in a multi-tasking situation, one core or even 2 cores get pegged for activity, leaving the other cpu and it’s cores underutilized. The workload is balanced out. Bad or poorer implementations of cpu & core load balancing can be seen in a task manager and hardware monitor graphs, core voltages fluctuating unevenly, temperatures significantly higher on one cpu and it’s cores. At the end of the day with those, what sense does it make to tax 1 cpu with 4 cores for the workload and buy a 2nd quad core cpu that rarely if ever gets any activity ?
Then there’s the memory aspect, each cpu gets it’s own set of dimm slots. If load isn’t balanced for cpu & cores, the memory is also being over & under utilized for activity. And this creates bottlenecks and inefficiencies for the infrastructure for chipsets (North & Southbridges) on the logic/main/motherboard as well. Efficiency across the whole system in multi-tasking is preferable to unbalanced loads. Analogies I can think of, what if the front driver side brakes of your car took all the load of a stop and the passenger side rarely braked. The wear would occur on one side, all the stress and heat of the workload on one set of the hardware.
In highest traffic situations, delays & waits could occur under these loads. For the most part, I’ve seen downloads even be balanced on single cpu/single core systems as well as multi cpu/multi core systems. That’s more a function of software, but could be programmed into hardware instruction sets for branch prediction.
]]>hey!! have a new version of Teztoc, http://acatl.net/blog/?p=44
example here: http://acatl.net/online-examples/teztoc/
]]>Yay! Polo is all ears! ]]>
You are totally right, I will search for the right stuff, and I will put my results here (also I will correct the title of the post). Please if you had time to came back and put the links will be awesome.
Thank you again for your comments, Load Sharing was what I was looking for…
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