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Re: [PLUG] Network based RAM
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- From: "Louis Kratz" <louis.kratz@gmail.com>
- To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
- Subject: Re: [PLUG] Network based RAM
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 15:06:35 -0400
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There is a project at http://nfs-swap.dot-heine.de/ called "Swapping
via NFS for Linux". It covers some kernel patches that allows you to
swapon over nfs.
Brent, they don't provide a direct justification, but I imagine it
could be used for netboot machines that don't have enough memory.
On 9/4/07, Brent Saner <brent.saner@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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