Dave Ingram wrote:
Hello - our company is currently working with Apple to build
clusters around their new XServe dual-G4 boxes.
We have a cluster of 8 units, running OS X Jaguar (10.2).
After looking at Ganglia, I think this would be an invaluable tool
for working with this cluster. However, I haven't been able to get it to
compile properly under Jaguar.
With support for FreeBSD in Ganglia, are there enough baseline
similarities that a port to OS X is within the realm of the possible? Is
anyone else exploring this?
Cheers,
Dave
I have a G4 tower here on my desk which I *could* use for Jaguar
development. However, in my computing environment it doesn't make much
sense to pursue it aggressively.
I tried to compile it under Puma but quickly lost interest when it started
looking like it would require effort. I didn't even get as far as
researching how to extract data out of the (micro)kernel, although there
appeared to be some surface similarities between Darwin and Tru64/OSF1.
That was such a frightening prospect that I had to go and lie down for a while.
All that having been said, I can't imagine that a Darwin port would be any
more inherently difficult than porting it to Solaris, IRIX and Tru64 -
having mostly to do with writing the right machines/darwin.c, probably.
Preston may be able to comment on specific FreeBSD/Darwin similarities...
