Re: Swapping for diskless nodes

Alan Cox
2001-08-09T22:46:29Z

> On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Ultimately its an insoluble problem, neither SunOS, Solaris or
> > NetBSD are infallible, they just never fail for any normal
> > situation, and thats good enough for me as a solution
>
> Memory reservations, with reservations on a per-socket
> basis, can fix the problem.

Only a probabalistic subset of the problem. But yes enough to make it "work"
except where mathematicians and crazy people are concerned. Do not NFS swap
on a BGP4 router with no fixed route to the server..