Re: Swapping for diskless nodes

Hi!

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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)

Can you try heavy ping -f's onto the swapping machine? Plus put some
*heavy* pressure on it. 40MB in swap is okay .. if you have 8MB main
memory.

								Pavel
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