Re: [TCLUG:17578] Partition: swap

[David Wood <jbevren@yahoo.com>]

On Fri, 12 May 2000, Philip C Mendelsohn wrote:

> On Fri, 12 May 2000, David Wood wrote:

> Actually, that's not that weird.  The thing about the AltaVista search
> engine project that was interesting when they started was that it was just
> brute force -- the system runs with some gargantuan amount of RAM -- 10's
> of GB.  Basically, the way they did it was to try and keep the internet in
> RAM!  I don't think they did a lot of paging or swapping, but I do wonder
> what they did to make it reliable.


I hear that google.com is a HUGE beowulf cluster :) That oughtta do well for
web indexes. :)