RE: Diskless clients?

>>> "Ramon" <ramonklown-jatbLxuxqqVfyO9Q7EP/[email protected]> 09/13/05 12:29PM >>>
Is it worth the bandwidth?
I've been building a couple of terminal servers and the traffic usage is what
bothers me when making these lans, seems like lan traffic makes the service more
unstable in certain cases. Now for processing needs when you need to run a graphic
rendering situation or game processing is it worth over a 100 lan to make the open
mosix option? Or only with a gigalan? For fast performance and good processing
benchmarks.
OBS: I'm talking about terminal service, hd only on server.

Thanks,
Ramon

> Yes, they will page if they need to (that depends on the linux VM settings, which
openmosix mostly doesn't touch). You could still go the route you suggest but
just have disks with swap partitions in the nodes. (People have also done things
like swap over NFS...)
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> Reid Huntsinger
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> In a cluster where we use a 'gateway' (single node where tasks are initiated) and
a number of 'client nodes' (no users defined, used only to run OM tasks), do the
client nodes ever page?
>
> Right now we are running with extremely minimal linux installations (Debian
sarge) on the client nodes. If these nodes will not page (all machines have
2-4GB), then I wonder about using diskless clients?
>
> This would allow even less effort to get a node "installed" (we'd use PXE boot to
get the kernel up and running) and even better we can disable/remove the disk
drives reducing power, heat and the occaissional disk failure (our largest single
instance of failure).
>
> Will this work?  Anyone have any advice on how to do this? I've not done it
myself (yet :-)
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