I acquired a 4u server with 4 identical motherboards. soon, I'm going to get the rest of the hardware (cpus) and use openMosix to cluster them together. I read a lot of the documentation on it, but have a few questions. 1. I havn't looked into Linux Terminal Server Project much, but can I have 3 computers as thin clients (diskless) to one fat (hard drive) client with openMosix on that one and use openMosix? 2. A document said use a lot of swap. How much is a lot? Is 500mb generally sufficient for a (ver) low load server? 3. Can the 4 computers be networked with one cat5 line running from the main router and split 4 way with a bridged connection sharing the same IP? Else, how could I do it with one main cable? Would a 5 port hub do the trick? 4. Could I shutdown one of the nodes without harming the cluster? I understand that all processes spawned on that node, or running on that node will be killed. But will the other nodes still be fine? Thanks.

4. mosix can be configured to be dynamic meaning yes they can join and leave as they want 3. yes you can use one network card apiece but the more network bandwidth you give them the better example would be use multiple network cards or firewire firewire is 400mb

2. lots of swap hmmmm depends on what you will be doing and how much ram you have personally i would try to use as much ram as possible or spread the swap vollume over multiple drives (scsi or sata) so you have faster swap access but any more 500 isnt a huge amount my application server has 4gb swap but is designed to use ram preferably 1. yes one excellent way is clusterknoppix comes precompiled with openmosix there are loaf versions though (loaf=linux on a floppy)