RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Anyone ever try MOSIX in an LTS environment?

[Vladan Gluvacevic]

Hi Charles,   I have some experience with MOSIX in LTSP environment. Thou I did it six month ago when myself and my colleague David Johnston had some job in prospect. It was a school.   I had a separate tftp directory with MOSIX kernel compiled and some MOSIX specific binaries in /bin and /sbin directory. MOSIX nodes were regular LTSP clients with no disk - just processors and a lot of memory. I did not want all workstations to run MOSIX kernel and to be member of the cluster so that was the reason I had two separate configurations on same LTSP server. In school environment where clients are mostly 486's and early Pentiums we did not want to put more traffic on network. Our Idea was to provide painless scalability and this was way to go. We planed to have LTSP Server and MOSIX members on separate gigabit network. All of this worked fine in lab. Job never started but it's still cooking. I met Jim McQuillan in here Charlotte, NC few month ago and I promised to write Howto when I get some time. Unfortunately I am very busy doing other things for living so I did not write it. Somebody else did and it's good. My next step is fail over for this system. Idea is to have Two LTSP servers with heartbeat and as many as needed MOSIX nodes on gigabit network. Second server should work as MOSIX node until main fails and be used. If main LTSP server fails the other one should take over. Clients will crash but at least they will get Login prompt again. I will let you know how it works if I ever get enough time and money to do this. If you have some questions please ask. I will respond as soon as I can.     Vadan Gluvacevic, CTO 1101 Woodward Ave. Charlotte, NC 28206 tel: 704-333-5887 fax: 704-372-9009 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.lxops.com