Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Aug 2001 23:23:15 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Swapping for diskless nodes |
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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.
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