[rescue] MOSIX

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> I've got the crazy idea of getting a bunch of Sparc Classic
> or IPX boxes together and seeing if I can make a halfway
> passable Web serving cluster out of them.  

Your definition of "passable" and mine are significantly
different.  A single IPX or Classic with 32+ MB of RAM will do
fine running Apache and serving static (or static+SSI)
webpages--particularly under SunOS 4 or one of the free *NIXes.
For a *very* long time www.nsa.gov was a SPARC 2 with 32-64MB
of RAM--and latency was never noticeable.  (It had its own
dedicated fractional/burstable T-1...)

Now, if you want PHP and a back-end database you might need
a little more horsepower--but if you're going to invest
the time to do a database-backed website *and* the time to
get some sort of clustering going with older Sun boxen,
then it's time to pony up $150 for a "low-end" Ultra 1 IMHO.

Unless you're trying to prove a point, of course, or simply
trying to do something that's of personal interest.

What's the lowest-end system(s) that anyone here has used to run
a database-backed website?

  --Rip