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[Soren Hansen <soren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2011/4/14 Ed Leafe <ed.leafe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> It seems to me that the current load only affects the time it will
>> take to spin up the new instance, and as such says nothing about its
>> long term (or even medium or short term!) suitability as the new
>> instance's home.
>  Such a consideration would not be the primary selection criterion, but would be more of a tie breaker. E.g., given a number of hosts that appear to be roughly equally good choices for a new instance, why not weight those that are currently under a heavy load so that they are probably not selected?

Good point.

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