Re: Swapping for diskless nodes

Jakob Østergaard (jakob@unthought.net)
Fri, 17 Aug 2001 03:35:51 +0200


On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:46:59PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > I'd call that configuration error. If swap-over-nbd works in all but
> > such cases, its okay with me.
>
> Agreed. I'm very interested in this case too, I guess we
> should start testing swap-over-nbd and trying to fix things
> as we encounter them...

FYI: The following has been rock solid for the past two days, using the
machine mainly for emacs/LaTeX/konqueror/... There's fairly heavy swap
traffic, often 25-40 MB swap is used.

joe@rhinehart:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 38052 37164 888 20616 2864 16968
-/+ buffers/cache: 17332 20720
Swap: 65528 24788 40740
joe@rhinehart:~$ uname -a
Linux rhinehart 2.2.19pre17 #1 Tue Mar 13 22:37:59 EST 2001 i586 unknown
joe@rhinehart:~$ cat /proc/swaps
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/nbd0 partition 65528 24728 -2
joe@rhinehart:~$

I'm swapping over a 3Com 374TX pcmcia card in a 100Mbit hub (hooked up to a
switch, connected to the nbd-server machine)

No problems so far - but then again, this is not an NFS-booting BGP4 router ;)

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