From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 01:16:18 +0000 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: Swapping for diskless nodes Message-ID: <20010811011617.D55@toy.ucw.cz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:46:29PM +0100 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Alan Cox Cc: Rik van Riel , Bulent Abali , "Dirk W. Steinberg" , Ingo Oeser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt, details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/