clustering

[Guest_imported]

Hi
Does anyone have any idea on how to do some clustering.
Basically I have at my desposal one sun ultra 10, AMD PC, and a laptop, all with solariss 8 on them.
What I want to do is take some processing tasks from the ultra machine and distributed amongest the intel/amd hardware.
The reason being the ultra 10 is dog slow at doing the most basic operations. It always seems sluggish.
Even doing bacic java programming using fortee of jbuilder, I have to wait for the screen to refreash.
Browsing the net is also sluggish(i'm using netscape 5.78, 6.1a, opera 5 and IE)
thank you

 

[harris79]

The basic requirement for clustering is 2 (or more) identical machines and some form of shared storage. You then spend a fortune buying the cluster software and duplicating all the hardware.

Maybe your machine runs slow because it is out of memory and/or swap space, use vmstat to find out.


Steve

 

[Guest_imported]

Thanks
Thats what I thought at first, but my machine is a 333MHz, 512mb ram and 1300MB of swap space.
I ran sarcheck, that came up saying that there were no bottlenecks and there was plenty of free memory available.
However I do notice that when running apps, the system performace meter is always in red for that period of time.