On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 12:05, Joost Veldkamp wrote: > You can also have a look at www.ultramonkey.org , deb packages > avaialble. Simplifies the installation of LVS a lot. > Recently, there was a article in Sysadmin mag. about clustering. There > was an interesting part about openSSI, it can be found here: > http://www.samag.com/documents/s=8817/sam0313b/0313b.htm
I didn't read trough the whole article, but openSSI seems to do the clustering at process-level (somewhat like Mosix). If this is the case: Technically you could probably run a webserver on top of such a cluster, but I doubt it would be a good idea as it will probably have quite a bit overhead which doesn't seem necessary for a Apache cluster. In the end the cluster would either need some really beefy hardware (especially network for the I/O I guess) and/or won't deliver the performance you would expect. A dedicated loadbalancer is probably the better solution as it doesn't add much overhead - its only job is to distribute incoming requests. Anyway: please correct me if I'm wrong! ;o) best regards Markus -- Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ Unix and Network Administration Graz, AUSTRIA \ High Availability / Cluster Mobile: +43 676 6485415 \ System Consulting Fax: +43 316 428896 \ Web Development -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
