Re: Swapping for diskless nodes

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 9 Aug 2001 23:46:29 +0100 (BST)


> On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Ultimately its an insoluble problem, neither SunOS, Solaris or
> > NetBSD are infallible, they just never fail for any normal
> > situation, and thats good enough for me as a solution
>
> Memory reservations, with reservations on a per-socket
> basis, can fix the problem.

Only a probabalistic subset of the problem. But yes enough to make it "work"
except where mathematicians and crazy people are concerned. Do not NFS swap
on a BGP4 router with no fixed route to the server..
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