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Alex Granovsky
gran@classic.chem.msu.su

Working with P2P interface enabled, Firefly creates additional
thread which is used to serve P2P requests. In DLB mode, this
single thread works in multiplexed mode serving both P2P requests
and DLB requests. In XDLB mode, there is an extra thread which
serves to handle DLB requests exclusively.

In brief, XDLB mode requires more system's and program's resources
but may result in better load balancing, esp. for parallel mp2 code.

Kind regards,
Alex



On Wed Jan 30 '13 6:40am, Siddheshwar Chopra wrote
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>Dear Sir,
>I had just heard of Dynamic load balancing, before I gave it a try to Firefly8. But once I included dlb=.t. in the command line; I finally understood what it does and how lovely this concept is. I can open so many applications parallely, without the computer hanging.
>Sir, could you please tell me what is "xdlb". How beneficial is it?
>Regards,