From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 23:25:06 +0200 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: Swapping for diskless nodes Message-ID: <20010817232506.B19037@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> References: <3B7CBCD0.CD209D84@xss.co.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3B7CBCD0.CD209D84@xss.co.at>; from andreas@xss.co.at on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 08:42:24AM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andreas Haumer Cc: 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! > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > 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... > > > We do "testing" swap-over-nbd for some time now... :-)) > > In fact, all our workstations in our office are xS+S Diskless Clients, > and about 50 Diskless Clients are running at several customer sites. > > In order to make Pavel happy :-) we did some more stress testing > now, and here are the results: Pavel is happy ;-). > We set up a quite old machine (ASUS P55T2P4 motherboard, > 64MB RAM, AMD K6/200 CPU, Matrox Millenium II graphics card, > RTL8139 100MBit Ethernet) as Diskless Client with NBD Swap. > > We installed our up-coming BLD-3.1 with Linux-2.2.19 kernel, > Etherboot+initrd, DevFS and NBD swap patches. Can you revert NBD swap patch and try again? It should break. If it does not break, your testing is not good enough. 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/