Mike- there is very little hassle beyond building the openmosix kernel itself when set up in via LTSP. Use lstpa(?) utility from the LTSP contribs to coppy teh omdiscd to the ltsp export and set it ina script to be called at client boot. Client setup and migrating.
evan On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 18:30:12 +0100 Mike H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > Mike > -- > Mike H > www.csits.net/staff/mikeh > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal > Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us > Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more > http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > -- Microsoft is not an International or Open Standard. Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. I can only access International or Open standard documents. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
