Re: NFS-swap and NFS slowness questions

[Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au>]

>Is there a path for 2.0.36 (i use it at the moment) kernel which allows it 
>to use NFS- swap?
>Or NFS-swap is normally compiled in 2.0.36 (or 2.2.X???) but i don't know 
>how to use it?
>I get lot's of error messages when i try to do:
>mkswap /tmp/swapfile (works OK)
>swapon /tmp/swapfile (after that i get a few errors :( )

You need to patch the kernel. You can't swap to a file on a NFS root
partition.

>Are there any complications with using NFS-swap? Somebody tryed to use it?

I don't use it myself it but I hear it's doable. It's a poor substitute
for a local hard disk. If you have only one or two clients, well, ok,
but if a whole classroom of machines start using network swap...

If you can, get a small hard disk, say 40-100 MB and use that as local
swap.
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