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I dont know, but I would assume it has to deal with the fact you can't predict how long a job will take to complete, and a random selection would have more reso

by w-ll 14y ago

I dont know, but I would assume it has to deal with the fact you can't predict how long a job will take to complete, and a random selection would have more resources-more free-more often, verses FIFO where a group of really large tasks could halt everything.

kordless 14y ago
That's exactly correct. Given jobs cleared out quick, that wouldn't necessarily be the case.
manmal 14y ago
And what if they turned the whole thing into a request queue and workers get the "messages" as they become available? To ensure there are no timeouts, they could define a max time a request may stay in the queue, and then take it out and handle it with emergency workers or kill it?