[huskerlug] Re: My first cluster success
- From: James Worrest <jworrest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 12:18:27 -0500 (CDT)
You're going to push me into doing something with this yet! ---Jim
At 03:43 PM 5/12/2001 -0500, you wrote:
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>I put together a quick mosix cluster to see what we would be up
>against... it was VERY easy. This was my first clustering
>experience and it went relatively smooth.
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>I put together 3 machines. They are:
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>Pentium MMX 166, 16 megs ram
>Pentium MMX 200, 64 megs ram
>Pentium MMX 200, 96 megs ram
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>First I installed Mandrake 7.2. Then, I recompiled the 2.4.4
>kernel with the Mosix patch and rebooted the machine with that
>kernel. The next step was to enter all the machines that are in
>the cluster into the mosix.map file. After that, it was ready
>to run! The majority of the time was spent installing Mandrake
>and recompiling the kernel.
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>To test it, and for lack of a better program, I used
>distributed.net. One the 166 mhz machine, I started 5 dnetc
>clients at once in the background. On the other machines, I
>monitored the load usage graph. For the first few seconds, the
>166 took the whole load, but it quickly evened out between the
>three, with two dnetc clients each on the 200's and one on the
>slower 166.
>
>When you look at top on the machine that started the processes,
>it shows four of the dnet clients at 50% CPU usage, and one at
>about 100%. The other machines don't list the dnet processes on
>their top display, but do show a nearly 100% idle cpu usage
>since I ran all the dnet clients at a nice priority.
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>Now, we just need to find some room so we can setup HLUG's. I
>would like to try some more experiments, like how does file
>serving perform and web serving using Mosix's distributed file
>system, which I didn't put on this cluster.
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>I'll try to contact Steve later on next week about this.
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>- --
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>J.R. Wessels
>jwessels@xxxxxxxxxxx
>www.unl.edu/hlug
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