From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268427AbUHLG7D (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 02:59:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268428AbUHLG7D (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 02:59:03 -0400 Received: from zcamail05.zca.compaq.com ([161.114.32.105]:50704 "EHLO zcamail05.zca.compaq.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268427AbUHLG7A (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 02:59:00 -0400 Message-ID: <411B1551.4050204@hp.com> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:29:29 +0530 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040808 Debian/1.7.2-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rik van Riel Cc: Zenaan Harkness , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: vservers on OpenMosix ?? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > >>Is anyone doing this? Is it possible? > > > It might be possible, but is probably quite a lot of work. > > >>Wouldn't it be the ultimate clustering solution? > > > Not if MOSIX still has the problem that when one machine > crashes, you lose all the processes that started on that > system or have any services running on that system. > > Also, IPC across the network isn't very fast, so it may > be better for performance if all the processes from a > single virtual system run on one physical system... > There you explained some of the things that OpenSSI(www.openssi.org) does :). -aneesh