Older blog entries for axehind (starting at number 2)

I've been doing alot of different things lately. At home I've been hacking around with the openMosix userland code. I would like to hack around with the openMosix kernel patch and code but I dont know the linux kernel yet. I'll learn it sooner or later.

At work I've been messing with drbd (http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/reisner/drbd/) and heartbeat (http://www.linux-ha.org/) for a HA Linux NFS server. It's all working well now. I'm stress testing it today. I made a program that copies and deletes files on the drbd partition. Seems pretty stable so far and replication is working. The initial sync is a little slow though. The failover works pretty well too. It takes about 20 seconds or less to failover.

Got my openMosix cluster working finally. I made a foolish error of locking ssh. Everytime I ssh'd to a node and ran a program, proccess migration didnt happen because I locked ssh along with everything else. One needs to unlock it so that his/her proccesses are allowed to migrate to other nodes if need be...live and learn. It's a small cluster but it's enough for me to hack around with the source code and make sure my code actually runs.

Bought 2 old P350's today for my home openMosix cluster. Should have a 3 node cluster up and running this weekend so I can hack around with the openMosix code..

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