Re: Expand VM

Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:20:35 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, User & wrote:

> I have one idea , and this is about expand virtual memory on linux boxes
> connected in LAN.
> Example: Linux A is processing come information , and need more memory , so
> with this source , Linux A could access virtual memory on Linux B in LAN.
> But i donīt know how translate the virtual address between Linux A and B , to
> have success in acess VM, or how to send all the process for Linux B to be
> processed.
>
> Any ideas ?

1 - NFS mount a big file and use that from swap space
2 - you could try the network block device stuff, at one time I believe I
had that working with RAID-1

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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