From: Larry M. <lm...@bi...> - 2002-05-05 16:21:35
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On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 07:25:00AM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote: > mf...@ma... 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 |