From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 16 19:31:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA29999 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 19:31:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from terra.Sarnoff.COM (terra.sarnoff.com [130.33.11.203]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA29988 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 19:31:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rminnich@localhost) by terra.Sarnoff.COM (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA00795; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 22:30:22 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 22:30:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ron G. Minnich" X-Sender: rminnich@terra To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: user-level distributed shared memory available for freebsd Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This system is called ZOUNDS. it's all user mode, no special sysadmin needed to use it, uses TCP, comes with manual and a sample app. It can exploit rfork if you have it in your 2.2+ system, provides a simple shared-file-descriptor rfork loadable module if you have earlier than 2.2, and for most cases doesn't have to have rfork anyways (There's only one specific case where it is helpful but not necessary). bugs to me, of course. ron Ron Minnich |"If you leave out all the killings, D.C. has as rminnich@sarnoff.com | low a crime rate as many cities" -- (609)-734-3120 | D.C. Mayor Marion Barry ftp://ftp.sarnoff.com/pub/mnfs/www/docs/cluster.html