The ramblings of g1powermac

Bah, gcc is driving me crazy! I decided to actually do some Clusterix development today even though I don’t have my cluster setup yet. My plans were to try out the older mini_fo for 2.4.xx kernels to see how well it works with a 2.4.27 kernel. First, while trying to compile mini_fo, it just couldn’t find certain files for the compile. The problem was with the way I compiled and installed the kernel (all traditionally). It wanted the kernel to be compiled and installed the Debian way to work. So, after waiting 5 hours to recompile the kernel (this is one reason why I’m building my cluster), I tried the mini_fo compile again. This time it was erroring out for another reason I couldn’t figure out, but once I tried gcc-2.95 on it, it actually compiled! Now I need to recompile the kernel again so both the kernel and module compilers match. Another 5 hours. . .

Besides that, I have been looking at some other cluster softwares and some of them are really quite interesting. Definite additions for the next Clusterix will be PVM and MPICH because they are .debs which makes really simple install. Also, I might add this as well because its an interesting complement to openMosix.

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