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List:       ssic-linux-users
Subject:    Re: [SSI-users] Games Server cluster
From:       "Brian J. Watson" <Brian.J.Watson () hp ! com>
Date:       2003-08-21 22:21:27
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Scott Minns wrote:
> First of all hiya all :)
> 
> Right, here is what i'm trying to achive.
> 1 x Master node, P4 2.53. 1Gb DDR 2x 120Gb ATA hdds software RAID, intel 
> gigabit ethernet, and 100mbit internet connection.
> 2-7 x Process nodes, P4 2.4 1Gb DDR No hdd, PXE boot, intel gigabit 
> ethernet (Need to just be able to plugin the extra nodes as more 
> resourses are used.)
> 
> What I want to be able to do is login to the master node, and spawn 
> games servers, I then want them to migrate to other nodes to run, and 
> migrate between nodes keeping the load level.  I want all internet 
> communication via the master node.
> 
> I'm looking at using debian with SSIC to achive this, what I would like 
> to know, is;
> has anyone done somthing similar?

I don't think so. Are you still interested in trying?

> does any one have any recomendation or tips before I start?

Don't distribute processes across the cluster that do a lot of writing 
to shared memory. You'll end up moving a lot of pages over the network, 
which would seriously hurt performance. This constraint is true of all 
clusters.

> Are their any nice web based tools that can be used to admin an ssic 
> cluster?

Not yet. Volunteers are welcome to develop some.

> I'm sure there are many more that I will think of as i try!

Thanks for the interest,

Brian



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