Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 May 2002 09:21:33 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: UML is now self-hosting! |
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On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 07:25:00AM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote: > mfedyk@matchmail.com said: > > How would this be better than MOSIX, or other clustering solutions? > > MOSIX (or Compaq's SSI) would certainly be a way of doing it. It happens > that there's a particularly simple way of doing it with UML. You'd partition > UML's 'physical' memory between the hosts, and use the fact that those pages > are really virtual to fault them between hosts as needed. This would perform > particularly badly, but its simplicity appeals to me.
See http://www.bitmover.com/cc-pitch/ for some more on this idea. I think the UML approach would be very cool. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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