From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 23:23:15 +0200 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: Swapping for diskless nodes Message-ID: <20010817232315.A19037@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> References: <20010816234639.E755@bug.ucw.cz> <20010817033551.A2188@unthought.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010817033551.A2188@unthought.net>; from jakob@unthought.net on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:35:51AM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jakob ?stergaard , Rik van Riel , Pavel Machek , Alan Cox , Bulent Abali , "Dirk W. Steinberg" , Ingo Oeser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Hi! > > > 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 -- The best software in life is free (not shareware)! Pavel GCM d? s-: !g p?:+ au- a--@ w+ v- C++@ UL+++ L++ N++ E++ W--- M- Y- R+ -- 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/