We tried it. You'll get high latencies if it's run anywhere but the home node (not unplayable, but maybe 20-40ms higher than normal, depending on the speed of the machines and network connections). The problem is that the game is I/O-heavy, and most I/O must go through the home node in an openmosix cluster. If you made modifications to openmosix to seamlessly move IP addresses between machines when the processes were moved, this lag would disappear.
Migration of the process also takes a brief amount of time and shows up as a hefty lag spike, so those aren't something you'd want to do very frequently. And level load times when not on the home node are very high, but you probably guessed that ;)
Conclusion: You'd be fine if you just ran it on the home node, but that sort of defeats the purpose of the cluster.
-John
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 6:51 PM Subject: [hlds_linux] Running an HL Server on Openmosix Cluster
Hello, I am more than half way through with a personal project of setting up an openmosix cluster of my older computers. I do have a p4 in here that I previously used as a CS server that is the prime host, and really would just like to know if anyone has ever run an hlds server in a cluster, and what kind of performance does it give compared to a standard server?
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