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On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 01:02, Tantive wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> as I'm the OpenMosix (www.openmosix.org) guy for gentoo I would inform |
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> you about the benefits you could have using openmosix and would ask you |
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> to test the openmosix-ebuilds. |
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> In the portage tree we have at the moment: |
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> - openmosix-sources (2.4.18-r5 and 2.4.19-r5 are the latest, but masked) |
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> The patched vanilla-sources including openmosix and evms. |
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> - openmosix-user (latest is 0.2.4, masked, too) |
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> The userland tools needed to manage your cluster. |
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> - openmosixview (1.2, guess what... masked) |
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> A nice gui which shows you the current load in you cluster. |
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> OpenMosix will allow you to share your CPU-power across several machines |
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> (x86-only at the moment) building a cluster containing several nodes. |
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> So let's make an example: You have a slow machine and a fast one. If you |
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> want to compile a new kernel on the slow one OpenMosix will "migrate" |
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> these processes to the fast one. This means you could compile your |
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> kernel at approx. the same speed you would on your good machine. |
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> Having many nodes in your cluster the speed increases with every node. |
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> BUT this happens completely transparent. You will have to do nothing. |
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> Nodes can even join and leave a running cluster with no bad effects. |
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC, the original mosix was useless for |
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the compilation speed improvements due to the fact that a typical |
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compilation process doesn't last long enough to even be considered |
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for migration. And even if the migration would be forced, the migration |
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overhead compared to the process execution time, would kill all the time |
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savings. |
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Vitaly |
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