[SunRescue] Re: New Netra

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That is a fairly good description of mosix.  It cannot migrate some
processes, and I forget exactly what it cannot migrate, but what it can
migrage it attempts to move to the system currently under the lightest
load.
	Nick

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Reagen Ward wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 01:50:33PM -0500, nick at snowman.net wrote:
> > I can verify the utility of mosix.  I can also point out that it's not all
> > roses.  I have more than once had SSH processes try and migrate between
> > systems, along with several other things that Shouldn't migrate.  Mosix is
> > nice, but I would call it beta still.  It can be used, and it is very
> > usefull if you can use it, however it has many picky limitations.
> 
> Isn't mosix less of a metacomputing / parallel processing system as it is a
> load-shifting system, where a single process runs on a single machine, but
> has machine mobility depending on resource utilization?
> 
> Reagen
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