Brent Saner on 4 Sep 2007 17:42:14 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Network based RAM

  • From: "Brent Saner" <brent.saner@gmail.com>
  • To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
  • Subject: Re: [PLUG] Network based RAM
  • Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 13:42:04 -0400
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exactly!
but i don't know WHY you'd want to; any possible advantage you could get from this is negated by the horrible speed of network R/W. hehe

"oh em jee guys hold on, my RAM's lagging with a ping of 100 rofl"

On 9/4/07, Michael C. Toren <mct@toren.net> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 01:27:12PM -0400, Mark Baker wrote:
> Looks like windows vista may be moving towards network shared RAM:
>
> http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/5/25/4115
>
> I would love to see something like this in Linux.

You could always create a swapfile on a mounted network file system :-)

-mct
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