Re: How to setup SWAP partition for diskless client

[Paul Wilkins <paulw@monsterboard.com.au>]

On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Karsten Brinkmann wrote:

> > > How do I set up the SWAP partition for a Linux diskless client using a Linux
> > > server's diskspace?  Thanks.
> > 
> > Swapping on an nfs drive is a bad idea. Usually the best thing to do is 
> > not have a swap partition at all.
> > 
> And what if your memory runs out?

I think the same thing as if swap runs out, your mallocs fail until space 
becomes available, nothing serious.

I would have thought the best way to set up a diskless box was to swap 
over NFS, but to add RAM to the box so that the swap is hardly ever used.
As far as I know, there's nothing wrong with swapping over NFS apart from 
speed. Extra RAM here should help enormously.

Cheers

Paul

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