Stephen Gran on 4 Sep 2007 22:54:23 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Network based RAM


On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 01:51:59PM -0400, Brent Saner said:
> what would be nice in the future is to see consumer-level mobos with
> hotpluggable RAM, maybe even externally. that'd solve this entire
> problem.
> 
> why stop there?  i think if every single thing could be hotswappable
> (i give that technology about another 5-7 years to show up), it'd be
> awesome. oh, bad processor?  swap a new one in!
> 
> it'd be mind-boggling as to how that'd WORK, though...

This has been available for decades on "server" hardware.  Mainframes
allowed you to swap memory or cpus without taking the machine down, and
even some relatively recent sun machines have pretty much everything hot
swappable.

There actually isn't really a problem here to be solved, besides cost,
as far as I can see.  The stuff microsoft is proposing has all been
possible in reasonable operating systems for a while, but it still looks
like a bad idea.  And this comes from a guy who worked around a 2 gig
file limit on a network file share by raid0'ing together a bunch of
smaller files and putting a file system on the raid device.  That was a
bad (cool?) idea for file storage, but I don't think I'd do the same for
swap.
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