Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Scaling noise | From | Steven Cole <> | Date | 03 Sep 2003 20:48:32 -0600 |
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On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 20:31, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> I don't think the initial development baby-steps are *too* bad, and don't > even have to be done on a NUMA box - a pair of PCs connected by 100baseT > would work. Personally, I think the first step is to do task migration - > migrate a process without it realising from one linux instance to another. > Start without the more complex bits like shared filehandles, etc. Something > that just writes 1,2,3,4 to a file. It could even just use shared root NFS, > I think that works already. > > Basically swap it out on one node, and in on another, though obviously > there's more state to take across than just RAM. I was talking to Tridge > the other day, and he said someone had hacked up something in userspace > which kinda worked ... I'll get some details. >
This project may be applicable: http://bproc.sourceforge.net/ BProc is used here: http://www.lanl.gov/projects/pink/
Steven
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