The Mosix HOWTO

Kris Buytaert

buytaert@be.stone-it.com

Revision History
Revision v0.1513 March 2002
Revision v0.1318 Feb 2002
Revision ALPHA 0.0309 October 2001
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Disclaimer
1.3. Distribution policy
1.4. New versions of this document
1.5. Feedback
2. So what is mosix Anyway ?
2.1. A very, very brief introduction to clustering
2.2. The story so far
2.3. Mosix in action: An example
2.4. Components
2.5. Work in Progress
3. Features of Mosix
3.1. Pros of Mosix
3.2. Cons of Mosix
3.3. Extra Features in OpenMosix
4. Requirements and Planning
4.1. Hardware requirements
4.2. Hardware Setup Guidelines
4.3. Software requirements
4.4. Planning your cluster
5. Distribution specific installations
5.1. Installing Mosix
5.2. Getting Mosix
5.3. Getting OpenMosix
5.4. openMosix General Instructions
5.5. RedHat
5.6. Suse 7.1 and Mosix
5.7. Debian and Mosix
5.8. Other distributions
6. Cluster Installation
6.1. Cluster Installations
6.2. Installation scripts [LUI, ALINKA]
6.3. The easy way: Automatic installation
6.4. The hard way: When scripts don't work
6.5. Kick Start Installations
6.6. DSH, Distributed Shell
7. ClumpOS
7.1. What is Clump/OS
7.2. How does it work
7.3. Requirements
7.4. Getting Started
7.5. Problems ?
7.6. Expert Mode
8. Administrating openMosix
8.1. Basic Administration
8.2. Configuration
8.3. Informations about the other nodes
8.4. Additional Informations about processes
8.5. the userspace-tools
9. Tuning Mosix
9.1. Optimising Mosix
9.2. Where to place your files
10. Special Cases
10.1. Laptops and PCMCIA Cards
10.2. Diskless nodes
10.3. Very large clusters
11. Common Problems
11.1. My processes won't migrate
11.2. setpe reports
11.3. I don`t see all my nodes
12. Other Programs
12.1. mexec
12.2. mosixview
12.3. mpi
12.4. mps
12.5. pmake
12.6. pvm
12.7. qps
13. Hints and Tips
13.1. Locked Processes
13.2. Choosing your processes
A. More Info
A.1. Further Reading
A.2. Links
A.3. Supporting Mosix
B. Credits
C. GNU Free Documentation License
0. PREAMBLE
1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
2. VERBATIM COPYING
3. COPYING IN QUANTITY
4. MODIFICATIONS
5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
8. TRANSLATION
9. TERMINATION
10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
How to use this License for your documents
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