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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: Swapping for diskless nodes
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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.

Rik
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