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Thank you yes that has helped clear things up greatly. What have you found
to be the best web-benchmarking tool when comparing LVS Web-server
clusters?
Regards,
-Davison
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, tc lewis wrote:
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> lvs has basically nothing to do with clustering in the sense of
> distributing a process' cpu/memory utilization across a set of servers.
> lvs works in a sense of load "balancing" instead on a networking level.
> for example, distributing each http request to 1 of a set of real
> servers. in most situations the applications are unaware that they are
> working as part of an lvs.
>
> something like beowolf is more suited to distribute cpu utilization in
> that sense of a "cluster".
>
> does this help clear things up at all?
>
> -tcl.
>
>
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Avery (yi) Davison wrote:
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> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm very new to LVS and have tried reading the site page. However, I am
> > unsure as to what you mean by "the users see only a single virtual
> > server". What does this mean for applications running on the LVS cluster?
> > Are they, too, unaware that they are running on a cluster of servers, or
> > must you run specialized clustering applications written in something like
> > PVM? Also, what differences would there be between LVS and something like
> > Beowulf (apart from the load-balancing boxes)?
> >
> > I have read that the "realservers serve services (eg ftp, http, dns,
> > telnet, nntp)", but was hoping that it could be extended somehow to run
> > actual applications across the cluster. Am I wrong in this regard?
> >
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > -Davison
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