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-SLB NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2011-03-25
+SLB NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2011-04-26
Copyright (C) 2011 Sergey Poznyakoff
See the end of file for copying conditions.
Please send SLB bug reports to <gray+slb@gnu.org.ua>
-Version 1.0 (git)
+Version 1.0, 2011-04-26
+
+First release.
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* Introduction
+This file contains brief information about configuring and installing
+SLB. It is *not* intended as a replacement for the documentation, and
+is provided as a brief reference only. The complete documentation for
+Mailfromd is available in doc/ subdirectory in both manpage and
+texinfo formats. The latter is authoritative. To read it without
+installing the package run `info -f doc/slb.info'. After the package
+is installed the documentation can be accessed via `info slb'.
+
+An online copy of the documentation in various formats is available
+at http://slb.man.gnu.org.ua.
+
+* Overview
+
SLB stands for "Simple Load Balancer". The utility monitors a
set of remote servers, obtaining a set of numeric values via SNMP.
These values are used to compute a single floating-point number,
-called a "weight" for that server. The servers are then sorted
-in order of increasing weights and output (using a preconfigured
-format string) to a file or pipe.
+called a "relative load" for that server. The servers are then sorted
+in order of increasing loads and the resulting table is printed (using
+a configurable format string) to a file or pipe.
* Prerequisites

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