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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Openmosix
From:       Blake Watters <sbw () ibiblio ! org>
Date:       2002-09-19 15:22:53
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I'm curious -- I've run openmosix in the past and absolutely love the functionality. Unfortunately, I'm also an XFS junkie. Have you considered rolling the XFS patch into the openMosix ebuild? They are known to play well with one another very easily and probably will patch cleanly. Lots of the gentoo hackers I know are similarly enamored with XFS, so it seems like something worth considering. 

Blake

On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:02:14 -0700
Tantive <tantive@tantive.de> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> 
> as I'm the OpenMosix (www.openmosix.org) guy for gentoo I would inform 
> you about the benefits you could have using openmosix and would ask you 
> to test the openmosix-ebuilds.
> 
> In the portage tree we have at the moment:
> 
> - openmosix-sources (2.4.18-r5 and 2.4.19-r5 are the latest, but masked) 
> The patched vanilla-sources including openmosix and evms.
> 
> - openmosix-user    (latest is 0.2.4, masked, too)
> The userland tools needed to manage your cluster.
> 
> - openmosixview     (1.2, guess what... masked)
> A nice gui which shows you the current load in you cluster.
> 
> 
> 
> OpenMosix will allow you to share your CPU-power across several machines 
> (x86-only at the moment) building a cluster containing several nodes.
> 
> So let's make an example: You have a slow machine and a fast one. If you 
> want to compile a new kernel on the slow one OpenMosix will "migrate" 
> these processes to the fast one. This means you could compile your 
> kernel at approx. the same speed you would on your good machine.
> Having many nodes in your cluster the speed increases with every node.
> BUT this happens completely transparent. You will have to do nothing.
> Nodes can even join and leave a running cluster with no bad effects.
> 
> 
> After this short introduction I hope some of you will test OpenMosix and 
> give me some feedback.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> Bye
> Michael Imhof <tantive@gentoo.org>
> 
> Gentoo Developer
> 
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