Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Aug 2001 23:25:06 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Swapping for diskless nodes |
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Hi!
> > On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > 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... > > > We do "testing" swap-over-nbd for some time now... :-)) > > In fact, all our workstations in our office are xS+S Diskless Clients, > and about 50 Diskless Clients are running at several customer sites. > > In order to make Pavel happy :-) we did some more stress testing > now, and here are the results:
Pavel is happy ;-).
> We set up a quite old machine (ASUS P55T2P4 motherboard, > 64MB RAM, AMD K6/200 CPU, Matrox Millenium II graphics card, > RTL8139 100MBit Ethernet) as Diskless Client with NBD Swap. > > We installed our up-coming BLD-3.1 with Linux-2.2.19 kernel, > Etherboot+initrd, DevFS and NBD swap patches.
Can you revert NBD swap patch and try again? It should break. If it does not break, your testing is not good enough. Pavel -- The best software in life is free (not shareware)! Pavel GCM d? s-: !g p?:+ au- a--@ w+ v- C++@ UL+++ L++ N++ E++ W--- M- Y- R+ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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