On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 10:44 +0200, Jonathan wrote: > Hi, I've been using a cluster-like setup to start counter-strike servers > on demand for a while, but it's never really worked that well. At the > moment i use sun grid engine 6, but i was thinking of using something like > openmosix instead. Any thoughts on this? If i use (open)mosix i need to > use the 2.4 kernel, which i heard doesn't perform as well as 2.6 for hlds. > > Is there any other alternative available? The key idea is the launch a > server immediately as someone presses a button on a website, without > having to care about load on the boxes. Right now i have 22 diskless > server nodes in the cluster. > > OM also seems like a good idea since i will be able to expand it while > it's running without downtime or problems. > > One thing i'm not sure about OM is whether the load-sharing thing is good > or not. Ie, if a node gets overloaded, it moves processes to a node with > less load, if one exists. A move like this when the process is hlds will > probably cause a lot of lag for the players. > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
something like this was done some time ago. although i've never tried it myself, i am curious as to how well it would work. here is a link to a write up of the cluster: http://www.democritos.it/events/openMosix/papers/conecta.pdf ~cooky _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
