Rik van Riel wrote:

Andrew Morton wrote:

quoted

- We expect that the lots-of-dirty-anon-memory-over-swap-over-network
  scenario might still cause deadlocks. 
  I assert that this can be solved by putting swap on local disks.  
Peter
  asserts that this isn't acceptable due to disk unreliability.  I point
  out that local disk reliability can be increased via MD, all goes 
quiet.

  A good exposition which helps us to understand whether and why a
  significant proportion of the target user base still wishes to do
  swap-over-network would be useful.

You cannot put disks in many models of blade servers.

At all.

Or many thin clients in general. They are used in quite a few schools 
over here, running Linux.
Some of them do in fact have space for disks, but disks adds costs 
(heat, power, replacing failed drives)