Adding Remote mem. in local addr space.

Adding Remote mem. in local addr space.

[amey d inamdar]

Hello there,
   I am doing a project "Network RAM" along with my for parteners. We are going to access a remote memory as if it were a local RAM. Traditional Network RAM projects actually form a remote "RAM Disk". What will be the benefits if we can add the remote memory in local address space? 
  Thanx in anticipation.
-Amey
      

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RE: Adding Remote mem. in local addr space.

[Viju - CTD, Chennai.]

> Hello there,
>   What will be the benefits if we can add the remote memory in local
address space? 
>  Thanx in anticipation.
> -Amey

Hello Amey,

	What i understand from ur description is u are 
trying to use the available free mem in other machine's
if some machine is running low on memory, in a network 
of systems. This would have a adverse effect if added
to the address space of any process. Since the remote mem
access is slower than the local mem access, this would make
the system much slower. This NETWORK RAM can be used only if
u have a network that would serve much faster than the local
disk access. These NETWORK RAM can be used as a backing store
for the pages that are being swapped out. This NETWORK RAM 
can be used as a intermittent layer between RAM and disk.

Regards,
Viju.


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