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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1997
Waqar Sadiq, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Electronic Data Systems Corporation, Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
One aspect of the invention is a method for load balancing in a distributed object system running on a network comprising a plurality of computers ( ) including a first computer ( ) wherein the computers ( ) are operable to access a plurality of shared objects in a distributed object system. The method comprises instructing an object comprising a part of an application process ( ) running on the first computer ( ) to record at least one performance statistic in response to a message directed to the object. The application process ( ) comprises a multi-threaded process and includes a statistics thread ( ). Periodically, at least one performance statistic is obtained using the statistics thread ( ) and that performance statistic is sent to a local agent process ( ) running on the first computer ( ). The performance statistics are relayed to a workload service ( ) running on a second computer ( ) connected to the network. A new distributed object is instantiated in the memory of one of the plurality of computers ( ) based upon performance statistics maintained by the workload service ( ).