Megatest

  ;; find oldest alive
  ;;   1. sort by age ascending and ping until good
  ;; find alive rand from youngest
  ;;   1. sort by age descending
  ;;   2. take five
  ;;   3. check alive, discard if not and repeat
  ;; first we clean up old server files
  (assert (eq? (rmt:transport-mode) 'http) "FATAL: server:run called with rmt:transport-mode="(rmt:transport-mode))
  (server:clean-up-old areapath)
  (let* ((since-last (- (current-seconds) server-last-start))
        (server-start-delay 10))     
    (if ( < (- (current-seconds) server-last-start) 10 )
      (begin
        (debug:print 2 *default-log-port* "server:choose-server: seconds since last server start: " (- (current-seconds) server-last-start))
        (debug:print 2 *default-log-port* "server:choose-server: last server start less than " server-start-delay " seconds ago. Sleeping " server-start-delay " seconds")

		 (debug:print 0 *default-log-port* "WARNING: failed to delete old server info file "sfile)
		 (delete-file sfile))))))
     sfiles)))

;; would like to eventually get rid of this
;;
(define (common:on-homehost?)
  (if (eq? (rmt:transport-mode) 'http)
      (server:choose-server *toppath* 'home?)
      #t)) ;; there is no homehost for tcp and nfs is always on home so #t should work

;; kind start up of server, wait before allowing another server for a given
;; area to be launched
;;
(define (server:kind-run areapath)
  ;; look for $MT_RUN_AREA_HOME/logs/server-start-last
  ;; and wait for it to be at least <server idletime> seconds old