Kyle R. Burton on 4 Sep 2007 17:44:33 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Network based RAM

  • From: "Kyle R. Burton" <kyle.burton@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [PLUG] Network based RAM
  • Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 13:44:24 -0400
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Something else to look into (if you don't already know about it) is memcached.  What would be interesting is if a cluster of linux boxes could share file system cache (esp for nfs mounted shares).  Or if swap could be additional free mem from some other machine(s) - like memcached but integrated into the kernel?  Hrm..maybe that woulnd't work, since once allocated you'd need to hang on to it and you'd only be better off if the network was faster than local disk (which would be true, but not necessarily all the time).

Kyle


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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