Intrepid Load Balancing Server Intrepid is a simple server designed to determine which machine in a network cluster is the least loaded. This machine can then be used to execute processes on using techniques such as rsh, ssh, xon etc... The main programs are: intrepidserver : the server, this should only run once on a given network, and is connected to every few minutes by the slave machines to update their status. intrepidslave : This should run on each machine that it capable of being used as a remote execution host. Generally only the faster machines should be used for this intrepidslaved : This is a simple wrapper script for the above program which reads the server name from the config file, and automatically executes intrepidslave every 5 minutes. intrepidclient : This connects to the server, and retrieves the current best host. The word 'None' is printed if no slaves have yet connected to the server xon_besthost : A sample wrapper script for xon & intrepidclient which will execute it arguments using 'xon' on the optimal host, eg: xon_besthost /usr/bin/netscape