Re: [SSI-devel] RELEASE: OpenSSI 0.9.96 for Red Hat 9
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From: Greg F. <freemyer-ml@NorcrossGroup.com> - 2003-11-13 00:32:26
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What still needs to be done before the "1.0" release? On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:25, Brian J. Watson wrote: > OpenSSI 0.9.96 (the second RH9-based release) has some enhancements, bug > fixes and new documentation. It can be downloaded from OpenSSI.org. > > A six-page introduction document is included. It provides a good > overview of the features of openSSI, and is divided up into a variety of > topics, such as filesystems, the cluster process model, and system > management. > > There is now much better support for running X Windows on each node of > the cluster. This includes bug fixes to clusterwide Unix domain sockets, > and some changes suggested by John Hughes to allow X to run as a > non-root user. > > A new localview command allows programs like ps or top to limit their > scope to just those processes running on the local machine. > > Support for machines with more than 1 GB of RAM is included. Previously, > processes could not migrate on these machines. > > A faster cluster shutdown has been introduced. > > Nodes that are kicked out of the cluster are now automatically rebooted. > > The ksync command has been renamed to ssi-ksync to avoid conflict with a > KDE command of the same name. > > There's a new --modulefile argument to mkinitrd, for specifying > alternatives to /etc/modules.conf. > > Debugging support for process load-levelling has been added. The > interface is /proc/cluster/loadlog. > > Support for the cciss driver has been added to devfsd. The ida symlinks > have been fixed. > > Various process-related bugs have been fixed. Process loadlevelling > works correctly for large program names. Processes with a large number > of file descriptors can migrate without panicing a node. When a process > is stopped with Ctrl-Z, its parent is woken up. Races between delivering > signals and reaping children have been resolved. All processes in a > thread group are signalled, like they should be. A deadlock in > release_task() has been fixed. Defunct clone processes are properly > cleaned up. > > Other bugs fixes include IPC shared memory locking, potential memory > corruption when accessing remote objects, and various high-stress bugs. > > Again, OpenSSI 0.9.96 can be downloaded from OpenSSI.org. > > Enjoy, > > Brian > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, > 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest > developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, MySQL, > WebDAV, and more! http://www.apachecon.com/ > _______________________________________________ > ssic-linux-devel mailing list > ssi...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ssic-linux-devel |