Donnie Berkholz | 18 Oct 2005 21:23
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Re: Using high availability cluster ?


Benjamin MALYNOVYTCH wrote:
| I' would like to know if using high availability cluster (with master
| and slave), as described in
| http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/cluster/hpc-howto.xml would allow to
| have also load balancing ?
| Will the slave take a part of the load of the master when both of the
| servers are up and available ? Or will it be waiting the
| unavailability to work ?

That guide describes a high-performance computing cluster, not a
high-availability cluster. For load balancing, look into LVS.

Thanks,
Donnie

Gmane