From owner-freebsd-cluster Sun Nov 25 15:23: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from elm.phenome.org (elm.phenome.org [194.153.169.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5328437B405 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 15:23:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from elm.phenome.org (joshua@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by elm.phenome.org (8.12.1/8.12.1/Debian -2) with ESMTP id fAPNMtJA003912; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 23:22:55 GMT Received: (from joshua@localhost) by elm.phenome.org (8.12.1/8.12.1/Debian -2) id fAPNMnLB003910; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 23:22:49 GMT Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 23:22:49 +0000 From: Joshua Goodall To: Axel Scheepers Cc: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mosix lookalike for fBSD ? Message-ID: <20011125232249.A11675@roughtrade.net> References: <20011125224944.C7404@mars.thuis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011125224944.C7404@mars.thuis> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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