From: "Bulent Abali" <abali@us.ibm.com>
To: "Dirk W. Steinberg" <dws@dirksteinberg.de>
Cc: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Swapping for diskless nodes
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 10:26:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <OF452D802E.BE93E657-ON85256AA3.004E8422@pok.ibm.com> (raw)
>In such a scenario I would disagree with Alan that network paging is
>high latency as compared to disk access. I have a fully switched 100 Mpbs
>full-duplex ethernet network, and sending a page across the net into
>the memory of a fast server could have much less latency that writing
>that page out to a local old, slow IDE disk.
Have you actually tried swapping over the network using nbd or any other
network device mounted as a swap disk? Never mind the latency. Does it
work at all? I am curious to know.
Last time I checked swapping over nbd required patching the network stack.
Because swapping occurs when memory is low and when memory is low TCP
doesn't do what you expect it to do...
Bulent
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next reply other threads:[~2001-08-09 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-09 14:26 Bulent Abali [this message]
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
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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