Swap over the network?
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Donald Becker becker at scyld.comMon Oct 1 09:13:29 PDT 2001
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Mark Hahn wrote: > > "Cabaniols, Sebastien" <Sebastien.Cabaniols at compaq.com> > > Do you know if it is currently possible to have diskless nodes > > having their swap over the network ? > > omitting swap is usually a bad idea, since various revisions of the VM > have been unstable in the absence of swap - they used swapcache > allocation as a book-keeping aid, and didn't necessarily generate > any swap *traffic*. I believe that you are referring to the 2.4 kernels with the reference to kernels that are unstable without swap. The 2.2 kernels perform better with even a little bit of swap, but they don't require swap space. Donald Becker becker at scyld.com Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993
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