You don't.. "I want to install openMosix but I am afraid my machines are too weak for this:
A machine is never too weak: I have three P200s (64MB each) and two P166s (one with 48MB and one with 192MB). Two of them are on 10Base-T and the other three on 100Base-T. Even with these antiquated machines and "heterogenous" network, I get perfect load balancing to run simulation programs that I write in Perl. (See ProgramToTestACluster. Don't be held back by the fact your machines are old. To me this is a nice feature of openMosix: you can add newer machines to an existing cluster as they become available. And you do not need to have all identical machines. That's fantastic! However, a 100Base-T network is recommended! Contributed by Charles Nadeau. In fact: I had 6 486 computers (from 25 Mhz to 66 Mhz) sharing a Coax 10Mbit network. They all had 16MB of memory and no harddisk. That worked just fine. Processes migrated perfectly and everything was going as smooth as a baby's arse! :) Adding a P75 was no problem at all; simply editing openmosix.map and making sure all the kernels were the same version. " > Yes, if you compile for an AMD and put it on a K6 I can > see where it would break. But shouldn't it work if you > compile each machine for itself - that is on the 486 you > install Gentoo with 486 optimization, the AMD gets it's > own optimization, etc. A cluster isn't much use if it has > to have all identical hardware. > > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:08:14 +0000 > Mikhail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 07:45 Mon 20 Oct , Jeffrey Smelser wrote: > >> who the hell told you that?? Non of mine are compiled > >>the same and it works just fine.. > >> > >> I have a 486 here that works just fine in my cluster... > >>Moshe even entered code in to help out 486's work better > >>on a cluster.. > >> > > > >Hm. Do you have archives of the openmosix mailing list? > >it has been discussed few times. It is very unstable to > >migrate apps. with specific CPU flags on another node > >with processor that does NOT support these flags. > >just a quote from Michael Imhov: > > > >"As gentoo optimizes all packages to these flags it is > >very bad if e.g. a > >gcc-process that was started on the athlon is migrated to > >the k6-2 as it > >breaks due to not supported flags." > > > >and I can confirm that - apps. migrated from AMD Duron do > >not work very well on PII. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
