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A system (in sport) whereby every team plays every other team in a nicely pre-arranged fashion.

In computing, the action of looking up a value and being given a list of things to try.

The canonical example is __RoundRobin [DNS]__:''''

    <verbatim>
    $ host google.com
    google.com has address 216.239.53.100
    google.com has address 216.239.51.100
    </verbatim>

This is useful in the case that the first site might fall over, etc.

Another would be a __RoundRobin Archive__: a data structure that contains a pointer and N (eg 1000) spaces for data. Whenever you want to add a data item, you put the data item at the space pointed to by the pointer and increment it. If it gets to N, you set it back to 0 again. This way you can store exactly the last 1000 items of data with very little effort.

See also [rrdtool] and [Cacti].

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Last edited on Saturday, July 23, 2005 1:06:20 pm by AristotlePagaltzis

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