From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: Swapping for diskless nodes Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 23:46:29 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: from "Rik van Riel" at Aug 09, 2001 05:57:10 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Alan Cox , Bulent Abali , "Dirk W. Steinberg" , Ingo Oeser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > 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.. -- 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/