From: Jan-Marc Pilawa (j.pilawa_at_tu-bs.de)
Date: Sun 09 Nov 2003 - 18:09:59 GMT
I thought about it half a year ago. Well, i tried it out and openmosix
and veserver-patch compiled. The Problem is, that the knowledge of the
context needs to be migrated, too. in a first attempt it would be
sufficient to implement this, but one has to thin about same context-IDs
on different servers in the openmosix-cluster. The whole Idea fits close
to the Ideas of grid technologies.
Zitat von Luís Miguel Silva <lms_at_ispgaya.pt>:
> 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*!
>
> Best,
> +-----------------------------------------
> | Luís Miguel Silva
> | Network Administrator@ ISPGaya.pt
> | Rua António Rodrigues da Rocha, 291/341
> | Sto. Ovídio • 4400-025 V. N. de Gaia
> | Portugal
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> | G: +351 93 6371253 E: lms_at_ispgaya.pt
> | H: http://lms.ispgaya.pt/
> +-----------------------------------------
> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: vserver-admin_at_list.linux-vserver.org
> [mailto:vserver-admin_at_list.linux-vserver.org]Em nome de Herbert
> Poetzl
> Enviada: domingo, 9 de Novembro de 2003 16:38
> Para: Luís Miguel Silva
> Cc: vserver_at_list.linux-vserver.org
> Assunto: Re: [Vserver] Vserver + OpenMosix...
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 09:48:08AM -0000, Luís 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,
> > +-----------------------------------------
> > | Luís Miguel Silva
> > | Network Administrator@ ISPGaya.pt
> > | Rua António Rodrigues da Rocha, 291/341
> > | Sto. Ovídio • 4400-025 V. N. de Gaia
> > | Portugal
> > | T: +351 22 3745730/3/5 F: +351 22 3745738
> > | G: +351 93 6371253 E: lms_at_ispgaya.pt
> > | H: http://lms.ispgaya.pt/
> > +-----------------------------------------
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Mit freundlichen Gruessen
Jan Pilawa.
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