<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Introduction</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="The openMosix HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Improving Compiling Performance" HREF="compiling.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Improving Compiling Performance" HREF="compiling.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Imaging with openMosix" HREF="imaging.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >The openMosix HOWTO: </TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="compiling.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 15. Improving Compiling Performance</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="imaging.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1401" ></A >15.1. Introduction</H1 ><P ><EM >This Section is a Work in Progress</EM ></P ><P >Lots of people try to use openMosix as a kind of compile farm, ofthen they come back very disappointed. This chapter of the howto will try to explain in which cases your compilations will benefit from openMosix and how to improve your successlevel.</P ><P >First of all you have to remember 1 thing. openMosix will not migrate <EM >all</EM > processes you start on your cluster, only the ones that will benefit from migration to another node. For compiling this means that a process has to last long enough. Kernel compiles typically consist of numerous short compiles, each of them not being long enough to acutally migrate. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="compiling.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="imaging.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Improving Compiling Performance</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="compiling.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Imaging with openMosix</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >