Re: Swapping for diskless nodes

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

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
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