Folks, Can anyone offer any advise on LTSP clustering. I'm looking to deploy a number of LTSP servers and was wondering if I should use OpenMOSIX. I plan to configure the clients to find an XDM server via broadcast. In theory, on the law of averages this should roughly balance the load out. Also, if a server is busy it should have less chance of responding to a broadcast in time. Is it worth using OpenMOSIX? I don't think the improved load balancing that OpenMOSIX offers would outweigh the hassle of setting it up and supporting it. But I could be wrong and I would value the opinion of the people on this list. Also, what happens if an OpenMOSIX LTSP server dies? I understand that you lose all the processes running on the box and all the processes that that box migrated to another server. What sort of impact does this have on users? If a non OpenMOSIX server dies they lose everything, but I'm a little concerned that if a single process dies it will do weird things to the users session rather than bombing out totally. This would be a pain to support in a SME environment. Again, I'd value peoples experiences on this.
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