Re: Swapping for diskless nodes

Alan Cox
2001-08-09T15:13:11Z

> Last time I checked swapping over nbd required patching the network stack.
> Because swapping occurs when memory is low and when memory is low TCP
> doesn't do what you expect it to do...

Its a case of having sufficient memory in the atomic pools. Its possible to
do some ugly quick kernel hack to make the pool commit less likely to be a
problem.

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