From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
Bulent Abali <abali@us.ibm.com>,
"Dirk W. Steinberg" <dws@dirksteinberg.de>,
Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Swapping for diskless nodes
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 01:16:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010811011617.D55@toy.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15UyZR-0008IH-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:46:29PM +0100
Hi!
> > > 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..
That's cleaar misconfiguration. Similar misconfiguration to
a# mount b:/xyzzy /bar
b# mount a:/xyzzy /foo
. Similar misconfiguration to a nbd-swap-on b, b nbd-swap-on c, and c rely
on a for its routing.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-11 1:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-09 14:26 Bulent Abali
2001-08-09 15:13 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-09 20:57 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-09 22:46 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-11 1:16 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-08-11 1:13 ` Pavel Machek
2001-08-14 12:57 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-16 21:46 ` Pavel Machek
2001-08-17 0:46 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-17 1:35 ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-08-17 21:23 ` Pavel Machek
2001-08-17 6:42 ` Andreas Haumer
2001-08-17 21:25 ` Pavel Machek
2001-08-17 21:03 ` Andreas Haumer
2001-08-17 22:31 ` Dirk W. Steinberg
[not found] <no.id>
[not found] ` <E15Ulnx-0006zZ-00@the-village.bc.nu>
2001-08-09 10:50 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-08-09 13:12 ` Dirk W. Steinberg
2001-08-09 20:47 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-09 15:19 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-09 17:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-08-09 20:58 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-10 8:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
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