[OpenAFS] achieving "balance"?

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 11:48 -0500, Robert Banz wrote:
> On Oct 12, 2006, at 11:35, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> > Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> writes:
> >
> >> The tool that Russ Allbery distributes is almost certainly more  
> >> actively
> >> maintained.
> >
> > The problem with it, though, is that you have to have a CPLEX/AMPL  
> > license
> > to use it.
> 
> I've been doing some things that collect volume statistics nightly  
> (vnode usage, size, etc) and stores them in a SQL table, and I  
> periodically run a perl script that does volume moves of user home  
> volumes based on size & usage in an attempt to balance out capacity  
> and IO load amongst a collection of servers.
> 
> I'll see about posting the perl script that does this (it's not  
> actually that pretty) to the list next week if anyone is interested.
> 

I'd be interested in seeing it if only for what stats you're grabbing
and what I could do with them for our own trending.

thanks,
-sv