On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 05:18:15PM -0000, Lu�s Miguel Silva wrote: > Yes, my server is heavily loaded. > I have 2 IDE disks at 7200rpm, doing raid1. > The big load comes (mainly) from the mail server > (when users use imapd thru the webmail). > > I use kernel 2.4.21 + ctx17. > > I really dont believe in SMP solutions. > It is far more expensive then "setting up a cluster". > > In the past we (at my university) invested in dual processor > boards but now we are convinced that it is not a > $good$ $solution$ (heheh). > > According to the funcionality of how the openmosix kernel > works (imho) it would be the best solution to load balance vservers. > > The vserver project is great for "low'cost production > servers" and...*SECURITY*! > > I think that if you would be able to get us vserver'users > a "cluster'like" solution...it would be the BEST "system > administration" project *ever*!
well, so I assume you want to help to make this possible, by, for example providing mosix specifix information and setting up a mosix cluster, right? I, for my part, am willing to port the vserver stuff on a mosix kernel, if somebody does the testing ... best, Herbert > > Best, > +----------------------------------------- > | Lu�s Miguel Silva > | Network Administrator@ ISPGaya.pt > | Rua Ant�nio Rodrigues da Rocha, 291/341 > | Sto. Ov�dio � 4400-025 V. N. de Gaia > | Portugal > | T: +351 22 3745730/3/5 F: +351 22 3745738 > | G: +351 93 6371253 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | H: http://lms.ispgaya.pt/ > +----------------------------------------- > -----Mensagem original----- > De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nome de Herbert Poetzl > Enviada: domingo, 9 de Novembro de 2003 16:38 > Para: Lu�s Miguel Silva > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Assunto: Re: [Vserver] Vserver + OpenMosix... > > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 09:48:08AM -0000, Lu�s Miguel Silva wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > I just thought of something! > > How about the vserver project "united" with the openmosix project? > > It would be great to be able to have multiple vservers enjoying > > the cheerfull'blesses of multi'processing. > > let me address this separated ... > > > One of my servers is a X86 2.6ghz with 512Mb ram running about 6 > > vservers and it is *totally* lagged. > > either your 6 servers do really hard work, which will > bring down every system sooner or later, or your kernel > and/or configuration is not optimal. Another reason > could be a slow I/O (disk) and/or memory interface, > which usual is the bottleneck nowadays ... > > what you could do/try: > > - get a recent kernel and patch rmap and maybe O(1) > - use faster memory/disks (maybe striping, raid5) > - add a second processor, SMP systems are much more > resposive (smooth) with vservers > > > It would be great if we could balance the load thru other machines > > (like we do with openmosix). > > I agree that this sounds interesting and it might be > a viable solution to scale the vserver project beyond > the physical limits of one MP machine ... > > I do not have any deeper knowledge of OpenMosix and > no Farm where such a project could be tested/developed > so if there is interest in doing this, we'll need both. > > best, > Herbert > > > > > Best, > > +----------------------------------------- > > | Lu�s Miguel Silva > > | Network Administrator@ ISPGaya.pt > > | Rua Ant�nio Rodrigues da Rocha, 291/341 > > | Sto. Ov�dio � 4400-025 V. N. de Gaia > > | Portugal > > | T: +351 22 3745730/3/5 F: +351 22 3745738 > > | G: +351 93 6371253 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > | H: http://lms.ispgaya.pt/ > > +----------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver�����������������������������������ձ��z���X��X��[ ����X���b����ǫ�����!�����b���{��� �������f��f��X��)ߣ��z�� _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
