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Re:Swap, swap, swap, and bad places to work by rambojazz on Friday August 09, 2019 @11:27AM (#20655214)
> I’ve run clusters of several thousands machines installed with petabytes of ram

Do you mean a cluster of many computers that are collectively seen by the OS as a single machine with petabytes of ram? I can I do that too?

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Re:Swap, swap, swap, and bad places to work by georgebarnett on Saturday August 10, 2019 @03:52AM (#20660783)
Sorry if it’s not clear.

The cluster had thousands of individual machines, each performing their own discrete tasks with aggregate ram across the cluster in the petabytes.

There was no swap on any of those machines.

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