Martin Woolley wrote: > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 13:39, Noel wrote: >> Tadeu F. Oliveira wrote: >>> Hi, Everybody >>> does anyone have tried LTSP with some kind of load balance? >>> Is there any try to use LTSP with OpenMosix or something such? >> Yes, we've tried LTSP with home-made load balancing. >> >> We set up two identical LTSP servers, _BOTH_ of them (that's the trick) >> with DHCP server. The only difference between them (besides IP, of >> course) is that each DHCP server pointed to himself as TFTP server, NFS >> server and such. >> >> This way, the most loaded server is slower to answer the DHCP petition >> of a booting client, thus the less loaded server answers DHCP first and >> "gets the client". >> >> The results we've obtained at Ejercicios Resueltos are that there were >> never more than a 20% difference in number of clients being served by >> each LTSP twinserver. > > We do exactly the same thing. We have six servers, four Xeon 3GHz boxes and > two Athlon 2GHz and as you would expect the Xeons pick up far more work. I'm > amazed that the Athlons (remains from our original servers) manage to get a > look in. Originally we had 6 of the Athlons and they supported 90 clients > without too many problems; the Xeons have no probs at all. We've been running > this method of load balancing for 3 years and I don't expect us to look to a > more sophisticated solution. I should probably retire the Athlons but they > are like an old jumper so I'm reluctant to switch them off.
Martin- Just curious: how are you handling user authentication and sharing the /home directory among your servers, such that it doesn't matter which server a user is connected to? Petre ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
