[K12OSN] openMosix test packages

Shawn Austin austinsr at uindy.edu
Wed Mar 31 08:39:55 UTC 2004


The only suggestion that I have is looking at the openmosix.org
website.  There are a few patches is the community contributions section
that might help, but I have not used any of them myself.

A good place to start would be the openmosix list archive.

Shawn Austin
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 03:25, Sudev Barar wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 15:33, Shawn Austin wrote:
> [SNIP]
> > Programs that use shared memory usually die when they migrate. 
> > Openoffice has never worked well in that setup.  It would occasionally
> > die when migrated to another, idle machine.  Openoffice will almost
> > always opt to migrate because of the high processor usage.  Java apps,
> > for the most part, do not survive the migration, and will sometimes lock
> > up X when they die.
> [SNIP]
> Okay so now I know there was nothing wrong with my setup but OO users
> (even gedit) were complaining that their apps disappeared for no reason
> when we enabled openmosix for a trial period.
> 
> Tell me is there any way around this? Anyone who has setup openmosix
> without facing this issue?
> 
> Sorry for cross posting on many lists but I feel this needs to be sorted
> out or people made aware of likely pitfalls.





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