Dear Monks,

I have just run Win32::SystemInfo on my machine and it has presented me with the following: 

AvailPage3185.33984375M 
AvailPhys1187.1953125M 
AvailVirtual2018.03125M 
MemLoad42M 
TotalPage3940.31640625M 
TotalPhys2047.00390625M 
TotalVirtual2047.875M

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If I wanted to slow the uptake of new database intensive tasks by this machine (and leave the task to other machines in the cluster), what conditions would you specify for memory load? Also, are there any other conditions that monks would apply?

2006-03-22 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'How to perform load balancing among database servers using Perl?'

In reply to (OT) How to perform load balancing among database servers using Perl? by Win

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