Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 23:22:49 +0000 From: Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net> To: Axel Scheepers <axel@axel.truedestiny.net> Cc: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mosix lookalike for fBSD ? Message-ID: <20011125232249.A11675@roughtrade.net> In-Reply-To: <20011125224944.C7404@mars.thuis> References: <20011125224944.C7404@mars.thuis>
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On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 10:49:45PM +0100, Axel Scheepers wrote: > Hi, > Recently I experiented with some linux boxes running mosix. I was wondering > if there is a somewhat similar solution for FreeBSD ? Bottom line: no. Mosix was at some point developed for BSD/OS (92-93) but that work is long since obsoleted. > After looking at mosix I liked the fact that you can dynamically upgrade > in performance by adding nodes without having to change software, which > is imho ideal for a large scale low cost application server for X. well... if your application is primarily computation, it's applicable. But your application is X; that's mostly communication-bound or unmigrateable (local framebuffers etc). Y'see, Mosix has trouble when it comes to migrating things like socket endpoints. > Can anyone point out some starting points of similar projects for FreeBSD ? > I noticed that this list isn't quite busy and so I thought I might ask this > in the wrong list(only tech notes etc..), if so I'm sorry for the inconvience. > Thanks in advance, AFAIK there aren't any. The KSE work occuring in -current may lead to a framework that could be extended to handle process migration, but not before 2003 (based on current expected release dates) Joshua To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message
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