Hi.. > Has anyone thought of implementing remote_fork() in a linux-cluster? > The basic idea is that the user-space will make a fork() system call; > if the kernel detects resource constraints, it will communicate with > other nodes in the cluster & create the child in another node. check www.openmosix.org and www.openssi.org (also www.kerrighed.org, but never use it by myself ). Not exactly remote fork, more precisely they do process migration. Specificly to openmosix, it does forward the system call to the home node, so that includes fork() too. They bring tasks around the cluster nodes to achieve the clusterwide optimal load. Hope this helps. regards, Mulyadi -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
