[ale] mosix clusters

[Jeff Hubbs]

Stephen -

Mosix is just fine with disparate hardware; its load-balancing mechanism
keeps track of how busy each machine is and therefore compensates for
differences.  It stands to reason, though, that five 486es and one
AthlonXP 2400 is a little silly; the Athlon will be finishing processes
while the 486es are still doing the disk I/O to start them...

Even though you gain in a Mosix cluster by adding more machines and
progressively widening your memory and disk I/O pipes, the difference
between a Duron (especially a fully modern one) and a PII is quite
significant.

For a given pile of processes to complete on a Mosix cluster, the PII
and Duron machines will tend to finish at all about the same time, but
the Durons will have completed more of them.

- Jeff

On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 00:22, Stephen Turner wrote:
> hey got a question about mosix clusters, ok they do snazzy things but can
> you mix and match pc hardware? i heard some clusters have to have all same
> computer and hardware to work, can mosix work with clusters of p2s and durons?
> 
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