[mythtv] clone_vm

[Andrew Mahone]

As others have mentioned, MythTV uses threads, and openmosix can't
migrate threaded applications.  A quick google turns up openssi, which
is substantially different from openmosix (it's still clustering a set
of computers, but it presents them to applications as a single
multiprocessor computer), and is capable of migrating threaded
applications.

I'm still not sure this is a hot idea, though - if capture is being
done on one system (the one with the card), and compression on another
(because mythbackend got migrated off of the system with the card),
isn't openssi going to be passing the uncompressed frames over your
network?


On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:20:10 +0000, travis eddy <boscotwo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> hello, i have done some more research on clone_vm.
> do you guys use it to share memory? or for programs to communaite? i would
> really like to disable it so that processes could move around my cluster. if
> it is for communation then i know its not gonna happen, but if you use it to
> same memory then i can deal with memory sucking processes.
> 
> -thanks
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