Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 7 May 2001 03:42:08 +0200 | From | Jakob Østergaard <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] CPU hot swap for 2.4.3 + s390 support |
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On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:06:42AM -0700, Ben Ford wrote: > Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote: > > >Hey, this is cool. > > > >How far away is the capability to "teleport" processes from one machine to > >another over the network? Think of the uptime! > > > > It is here. Look at Mosix.
No. Not for uptime.
The "responsibility" for process completion does not get delegated. A process will always be bound to it's home-node (in mosix terms), no matter how far it's "teleported". If the home-node fails, the process won't know what hit it.
There are good reasons why mosix let's processes depend on their home nodes.
This is not meant as backstabbing mosix, it's a great environment for a lot of things.
But it's not the universal silver bullet.
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