----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean Michael Berris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:28 AM Subject: Re: [plug] shared memory access from a remote system
> imagine having a group of computers in an office running linux, then > having each one run my software. as these nodes are being used by the > people, the virtual machine runs in the background taking advantage of > the idle time of the computer. to not get in the way of the each node's > performance, the virtual machine should be able to balance the load > among the nodes working for it. example, if a certain node suddenly gets > its load up (running an SDL based game on a computer without a video > card that has its own GPU) then the work that should be allocated to it > should decrease. the work that is supposed to be allocated to it, must > be either held, or given to another node for the maintaining the > performance of the whole virtual machine. if thats the case then you have to hack the kernel scheduler by hooking up your process in the idle thread (or whatever command that will attached your process in the idle thread) or the most easy part is setting your process into its lowest priority (nice +20) and let MPI do the communication between nodes... fooler. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
