Re: Turn off Swap on boot disk

2019-11-24 Thread gwes
On 11/24/19 9:35 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2019-11-22, gwes wrote: First, why is your workload causing swapping? That hasn't been a good idea since the beginning of computing. Even if the main workload is OK, relinking the kernel (reorder_kernel) causes swapping on smaller-memory

Re: Turn off Swap on boot disk

2019-11-24 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2019-11-22, gwes wrote: > First, why is your workload causing swapping? That hasn't been > a good idea since the beginning of computing. Even if the main workload is OK, relinking the kernel (reorder_kernel) causes swapping on smaller-memory systems. > I've never seen an Alix so this may be

Re: Turn off Swap on boot disk

2019-11-23 Thread Sean Kamath
> On Nov 21, 2019, at 23:54, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > wait until you see the next thing i'm interested in. modern > machines will barely notice it, but alix's will quake. I look forward to what’s in store. As for all the other helpful comments (from Theo and others), thank you. The

Re: Turn off Swap on boot disk

2019-11-22 Thread gwes
On 11/21/19 2:47 AM, Sean Kamath wrote: Hello. Can someone provide me a pointer to how to do this? I have a bunch of Alix 2d13 boxes. With 6.6, I’ve found I need more swap than the default layout on a 2G compact flash drive has. So, I got some 1G USB thumb drives, and want to use JUST

Re: Turn off Swap on boot disk

2019-11-22 Thread Theo de Raadt
Sebastien Marie wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 11:47:39PM -0800, Sean Kamath wrote: > > Hello. > > > > Can someone provide me a pointer to how to do this? > > > > I have a bunch of Alix 2d13 boxes. With 6.6, I’ve found I need more swap > > than the default layout on a 2G compact flash

Re: Turn off Swap on boot disk

2019-11-21 Thread Theo de Raadt
Sean Kamath wrote: > > On Nov 21, 2019, at 09:55, Kenneth Gober wrote: > > ... > > The need for more swap may be related to kernel relinking -- it might be an > > interesting experiment to see if your existing swap space is enough with > > kernel relinking disabled. > > Yes, precisely. > > I

Re: Turn off Swap on boot disk

2019-11-21 Thread Sebastien Marie
On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 11:47:39PM -0800, Sean Kamath wrote: > Hello. > > Can someone provide me a pointer to how to do this? > > I have a bunch of Alix 2d13 boxes. With 6.6, I’ve found I need more swap > than the default layout on a 2G compact flash drive has. So, I got some 1G > USB thumb

Re: Turn off Swap on boot disk

2019-11-21 Thread Sean Kamath
> On Nov 21, 2019, at 09:55, Kenneth Gober wrote: > ... > The need for more swap may be related to kernel relinking -- it might be an > interesting experiment to see if your existing swap space is enough with > kernel relinking disabled. Yes, precisely. I did add some larger CF cards on

Re: Turn off Swap on boot disk

2019-11-21 Thread Kenneth Gober
On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 3:50 AM Sean Kamath wrote: > I have a bunch of Alix 2d13 boxes. With 6.6, I’ve found I need more swap > than the default layout on a 2G compact flash drive has. So, I got some 1G > USB thumb drives, and want to use JUST those for swap. Despite different > attempts

Turn off Swap on boot disk

2019-11-21 Thread Sean Kamath
Hello. Can someone provide me a pointer to how to do this? I have a bunch of Alix 2d13 boxes. With 6.6, I’ve found I need more swap than the default layout on a 2G compact flash drive has. So, I got some 1G USB thumb drives, and want to use JUST those for swap. Despite different attempts