Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 6 May 2001 05:49:08 +0900 | From | Bruce Harada <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] CPU hot swap for 2.4.3 + s390 support |
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> > >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.
Take a look at
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/299905.html
for something along the lines of what you want, I think (transparent process migration between nodes). As a bonus, it's also architecture-independent.
Bruce
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