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Cooperative Caching in Linux Clusters
Overview Most operating systems used in cluster systems manage memory locally without the benefits of cluster-wide cooperation. During typical use there will be some computers in a cluster that are short of memory while others have idle memory wasted. In this paper, the authors propose a cooperative caching scheme, which not only allows the operating system to avoid many expensive disk accesses by using cluster-wide memory for file caching but also improves the overall throughput of cluster file systems by reading files directly from the cache of other sites. And the authors also describe corresponding changes in Linux kernel memory management to support this cooperative caching scheme.
| Publisher | University of California | File Format | |
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| Date Published | May 2003 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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