[FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX distributed computing

[Euan]

Hi Tom,

Do you think FreeNX is viable (stable & mature enough for commerical use)
for >= 25 users? Interested to know your and others opinion, I am weighing
up FreeNX vs NX Server for a similar or larger project.


Cheers
E

On 10/11/06, Tom Kavanaugh <tomnaugh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> I am not sure too if LVS can do the load balancing for freenx.
>
> Since you have done some work on freenx, let me ask you about this
> hypotetical situation based on my knowledge of the citrix load balancer on
> solaris.
> There 2 two freenx servers config with load balancing. Let's say the
> freenx load balancer directs the first user login to server1, the second
> user to server2, third user to server1, fourth user to server2, and so on.
> When the first user disconnects h/er freenx session, and reconnects a few
> hours later, s/he will be again redirected by the load balancer to
> re-connect to server1, right? Even if at this time server1 is very heavily
> loaded and server2 is lightly loaded. Because h/er initial session was off
> server1. Did I understand the concept correctly?
> Or, is there much more intelligence in the freenx load balancer.
>
> Thanks
> \Tom
>
>
>
>
> On 10/10/06, Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe.alfaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 10/10/06, Tom Kavanaugh < tomnaugh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for your email.
> > >
> > > I will get details of Commerical NX's distributed computing from
> > > nomachine.
> > > Basically, I would like to know the benefits of this feature if
> > > integrated into the LSF / Sun Grid that we use.
> > >
> > > Thanks for letting me know about the freenx patch for load balancing.
> > > I did a search for this patch. It seems to me that this patch is not
> > > ready for showtime.
> > > Like, I would not want to just put a load balanced freenx
> > > infrastructure for my company's login servers. Yet.
> > >
> > > Has anyone implemented a load balanced freenx infrastructure for  ~25
> > > user login ?
> > >
> > > freenx servers with a LVS frontend seems to be a workablew alternative
> > > to me.
> >
> >
> > I'm not sure you can use LVS for FreeNX load-balancing. I think that in
> > order to support suspending/resuming of NX sessions, you need a mechanism
> > that allows you to recognize a session-resume-request in order to send the
> > request to the server where the user left his session suspended.
> >
> > I don't think LVS is prepared to support this kind of stateful
> > load-balancing for NX sessions.
> >
> >
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