Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 02 Oct 1997 14:31:33 -0400 | From | David Schwartz <> | Subject | Re: Sharing RAM over the 'net (was Re: Process Migration on Linux - Impossible?) |
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At 01:09 AM 10/3/97 +1000, Darren Reed wrote: >So why can't you share the memory ? > >Something pmap calling pmap on another box, over the network, and so on. > >Of course this would be real slow over ethernet, but what about if you >have a host which has multiple cpu's with dedicated memory for each ? > >I think in those sort of instances sharing memory over some sort of >"network interface" is an interesting idea and process/thread migration >could be very sexy. But perhaps Linux cannot support that without huge >rewrites ?
Cellular IRIX does exactly this. The big problem is, if one CPU fails or one network link fails, you (potentially) lose every single process on the network of systems.
DS
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