[mythtv-users] new Schedules Direct not random?

[Joseph Fry]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Robert Eden <rmeden at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/7/2014 12:54 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>
>> While one can create all sorts of dynamic scaling with EC2, the costs to
>> implement and test with a simian army is not always reasonable.
>>
>
> I can't really use dynamic scaling because when I get the load at minute
> 00 it's already too late.   Once excessive load is detected it would be at
> least 2-3 minutes until the additional instance is up.  At that point, the
> load is gone!
>
> I do plan on doing schedule based scaling to reduce costs, but first I
> want to stabilize the load.  This is all very interesting stuff! :)


Would it be so hard to return no data and assign a new time some random
number of minutes later?  Only do this when the load is high... but that
way you never need to worry about spikes.
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