[Beowulf] malloc on filesystem

[John Hearns]

Is this any use  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zram

On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 at 15:50, Michael DiDomenico <mdidomenico4 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> this might sound like a bit of an oddify, but does anyone know if
> there's a library out there that will let me override malloc calls to
> memory and direct them to a filesystem instead?  ie using the
> filesystem as memory instead of ram for a program.  ideally something
> i can LD_PRELOAD on top of a static binary.  understandably this is
> generally a silly thing to do, but you know, users...
>
> google is failing me, my search terms likely aren't right.  i'm
> looking through some of the older checkpointing codes at the moment.
> maybe someone cut shortcut my search
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