Thomas, If you look at the old NFS-swap patch for the 2.4 kernel, you'll see there is quite a bit of code that goes into making sure that the NFS packets themselves don't get swapped out. That would be a bad thing, considering we are trying to use NFS for the swap device.
I'm not sure that your method will actually perform properly. Although, I suppose it's possible that it could work. I'd like to hear from people who can actually try this, on a workstation with a small amount of ram (8mb, 16mb, 32mb), to see how it holds up under stress. If it works, then we can all be happy. Thanks, Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Thomas Reifferscheid wrote: > Hi. > > here is how it works: > > mount the remote nfs server to lets say /scratch > create a file, like: > > dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=100 of=/scratch/swapfile > > losetup /dev/loop0 /scratch/swapfile > > mkswap /dev/loop0 > > swapon /dev/loop0 > > > > Comments and feedback are welcome. > > Thomas > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
