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From: Andreas Haumer <andreas@xss.co.at>
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Hi!

"Dirk W. Steinberg" wrote:
> 
> Alan,
> 
> what you say sound a lot like a hacker solution ("check that it uses the
> right GFP_ levels"). I think it's about time that this deficit of linux
> as compared to SunOS or *BSD should be removed. Network paging should be
> supported as a standard feature of a stock kernel compile.
> 
We have swapping over NBD running for some time now on
our "xS+S Diskless Client" system, and it works really
fine! No problem running StarOffice, Netscape, The Gimp
and KDE on a 128MB Diskless Client and 250MB swap over a 
100MBit switched ethernet!

Check <http://www.xss.co.at/linux/NBD/Applications.html>
to find our solution for that.

Kernel patches are a little bit outdated, but we have NBD swap
for 2.2.19 running internally since this week, and we will
update our web-page soon.

Let us hear if it works for you.

Regards,

- andreas

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