Brian Kernighan on the origins of Unix [LWN.net]

Brian Kernighan on the origins of Unix

Posted Jan 21, 2022 18:14 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Brian Kernighan on the origins of Unix by malmedal
Parent article: Brian Kernighan on the origins of Unix

Yes, they did. You could migrate processes between nodes: https://web.archive.org/web/20031002104248/http://www.ope... with some measure of automatic load balancing.

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Brian Kernighan on the origins of Unix

Posted Jan 21, 2022 18:36 UTC (Fri) by malmedal (subscriber, #56172) [Link] (2 responses)

I believe I said Beowulf couldn't but MOSIX could migrate processes, they are different things.

Brian Kernighan on the origins of Unix

Posted Jan 21, 2022 18:38 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

Sorry, I'm a writer, not a reader. 🤦

Yes, of course you're correct. I used a Beowulf cluster with MOSIX back in the day, so that's why I'm confusing two of them.

Brian Kernighan on the origins of Unix

Posted Jan 22, 2022 13:03 UTC (Sat) by malmedal (subscriber, #56172) [Link]

My own memory also rather lacking at this point, but I think the deal-breaker for me was that the migrated process would die if the node it originally ran on rebooted.

Did MOSIX ever fix that issue?