Some weeks ago Matt Rechenburg posted about MattX , A Modern openMosix Re-Implementation for Linux 6.x
he tagged me in the post and obviously I was triggered, having spent years in the openMosix community , first writing the Howto, then later being the release manager , testing and getting rid of the openMosixFS , I wanted to see how things would work again today.

My first attempts at getting things to work were a quick failure, Matt had been bitten by the Works on My machine bug … it worked on his Debian setup, but not on my Fedora testbed, and while there is nothing wrong with Debian, that’s kinda a really small scope, so obviously I reached out , we’ve been chatting on and off. And I`m happy to see that I have now seen the first processes migrate in my Lab setup on my AlmaLinux boxen :)

I am however curious to see if there is still interest in such a project, while it absolutely is interesting to see how this works and what it’s limitations are (remember migShm ? :) I`m wondering if people would be willing to spin up openMosix style clusters to let processes rebalance over their cluster rather than stick with their traditional Job Schedulers ..

What do you think, let me https://mastodon.social/@krisbuytaert know ;)

https://github.com/brainmatt/mattx and https://mattx.de/ if you want to play