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On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Vladimir Dzhuvinov wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I'm relatively new to LVS, been through a number of docs and examined a
> small Ultra Monkey LVS in action. Good first impressions - thanks to
> the LVS authors :-)
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> I was considering a case where LVS could be successfully used, however
> it appears to me that the scheduling algorithms are connection oriented
> and as such most suitable for network server apps. My case is the
> following:
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> * 5 compute servers
> * each server is used by a group of people to run
> various computing jobs via telnet, files mounted via NFS
> * each group server has a highly irregular load pattern,
> depending on the group's project
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> Obviously, it would be a good idea to introduce a load balancer to
> spread the load between the five servers.
I assume each application runs on only one node. In that case you should
use mosix rather than LVS. With mosix, the users logon to a master node
where the jobs are started. Mosix reassigns the job to the least busy node
in the compute farm. To the users the master node appears to have n times
the compute capacity.
I have not used mosix, but the beowulfers who have used it, like it, i.e.
there aren't stability problems etc.
Joe
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Joseph Mack mack@xxxxxxxxxxx
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