[FreeNX-kNX] load-balancing doc?

[Prakash Velayutham]

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the info. I have a quick question. I am just about getting  
started to do the same thing.

Do you have your session DB area shared across the 3 access nodes? If  
yes, is that via NFS?

Thanks,
Prakash

On May 27, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Matt Nicholson wrote:

> So, this is super-duper late, but, I have/admin a load balanced  
> setup currently:
>
> Basically, we have a BIG cluster, as in 6000+ cores big. We have 3  
> user accessible access systems, that are access via a DNS round  
> robin. SO, somone connect to xx.yy.zz, and they end up at either  
> xx1,xx2,or xx3.yy.zz.
>
> We wanted to give users NX access to their sessions. /home and  
> anumber of other filesystems are share between all nodes, so this  
> was fairly simple. Since users could end up on any of the 3 systems,  
> I did the following:
>
> xx2 is the "MASTER system", running nx, as a load balancer (just  
> handing clients out randomly really).
> xx1 and xx3 forward any nx connection to xx2, where they are dealt  
> with. this way if a user connect, runs on xx1, but then suspends,  
> and alter connects and hits xx3, they will get sent back to the  
> "master" system, where it finds their session and reconnects to teh  
> right box.
>
> it works....fairly well. As with NX in general, lots of time has  
> been spend tracking down little errors/issues (someone make a bad  
> edit to their .bashrc, ssh logins work, but NX fails, etc). I'll be  
> sending on issue we have to this list shrotly.
>
> So, there a breif overview of how we have it setup. Feel free to  
> contact me for help/etc.
>
>
> Matthew Nicholson
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:12 PM, jhonyl <jhonyl at netscape.net> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Is there some documentation about load balancing in freenx?
>
> If not could someone who does it give an overview?
>
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