--- loncom/lonnet/perl/lonnet.pm	2002/09/16 19:42:10	1.282
+++ loncom/lonnet/perl/lonnet.pm	2002/09/17 19:45:11	1.284
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # The LearningOnline Network
 # TCP networking package
 #
-# $Id: lonnet.pm,v 1.282 2002/09/16 19:42:10 albertel Exp $
+# $Id: lonnet.pm,v 1.284 2002/09/17 19:45:11 matthew Exp $
 #
 # Copyright Michigan State University Board of Trustees
 #
@@ -348,12 +348,35 @@ sub delenv {
     return 'ok';
 }
 
+# ------------------------------------------ Fight off request when overloaded
+
+sub overloaderror {
+    my ($r,$checkserver)=@_;
+    unless ($checkserver) { $checkserver=$perlvar{'lonHostID'}; }
+    my $loadavg;
+    if ($checkserver eq $perlvar{'lonHostID'}) {
+       my $loadfile=Apache::File->new('/proc/loadavg');
+       $loadavg=<$loadfile>;
+       $loadavg =~ s/\s.*//g;
+    } else {
+       $loadavg=&reply('load',$checkserver);
+    }
+    my $overload=$loadavg-$perlvar{'lonLoadLim'};
+    if ($overload>0) {
+	$r->err_headers_out->{'Retry-After'}=$overload*30;
+        $r->log_error('Overload of '.$overload.' on '.$checkserver);
+        return 413;
+    }    
+    return '';
+}
+
 # ------------------------------ Find server with least workload from spare.tab
 
 sub spareserver {
+    my $loadpercent = shift;
     my $tryserver;
     my $spareserver='';
-    my $lowestserver=100;
+    my $lowestserver=$loadpercent; 
     foreach $tryserver (keys %spareid) {
        my $answer=reply('load',$tryserver);
        if (($answer =~ /\d/) && ($answer<$lowestserver)) {
@@ -3307,7 +3330,7 @@ BEGIN {
 
     while (my $configline=<$config>) {
        chomp($configline);
-       if (($configline) && ($configline ne $perlvar{'lonHostID'})) {
+       if ($configline) {
           $spareid{$configline}=1;
        }
     }