Thanks - that's what I thought. We also (many refreshes ago) ran diskless images with RedHat 6 and GPFS 3.4 and ran into no issues with having swap off. I figured to ask in case something has changed with the Spectrum Scale. Damir
On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 10:31 AM <david_john...@brown.edu> wrote: > We have most of our clients network booted and diskless — no swap > possible. Gpfs still works until someone runs the node out of memory.... > > -- ddj > Dave Johnson > > > On Nov 8, 2019, at 11:25 AM, Damir Krstic <damir.krs...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > I was wondering if it's safe to turn off swap on gpfs client machines? > we have a case where checkpointing is swapping and we would like to prevent > it from doing so by disabling swap. However, the gpfs manual admin. manual > states to have swap enabled and sufficiently large, but it does not > distinguish between clients and IO servers. > > > > Let me know when you get a chance. > > > > Thank you. > > Damir > > _______________________________________________ > > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss > _______________________________________________ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss >
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