[Beowulf] disabling swap on cluster nodes?

Joe Landman landman at scalableinformatics.com
Sat Feb 7 07:17:58 PST 2015


typed fast

On 02/06/2015 05:35 PM, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
> Do any of you disable swap on your compute nodes?
>
> I brought this up in a presentation I gave last night on HPC system 
> administration, but realized I never actually did this, or know of 
> anyone who has. I would tweak the vm.overcommit_memory setting, but 
> that's not the same as disabling swap altogether. I'd like to try 
> doing this in the future, but I prefer to learn from someone else's 
> mistakes first.
>
>

s/zswap/zram/g

and them my note is what I meant.

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