Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:17:46PM -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote:
> >>Ok, I've set up a 5GB swap over NBD. If the system reboots, it won't
> >>automagically reattach it.
> >>
> >>The kernel is NOT running the nbd swap patch, so I don't know if the
> >>system will deadlock under stress, or not...
> >
> >It most likely will...
>
> Older kernels definitely would. But the mailing lists aren't
> so clear about the current state of things,
The issue of network swap deadlocking has not been fixed so far.
> and I can't seem to find the patches either...
Peter Zijlstra and Daniel Phillips have been posting patches to fix
the underlying issue, but those have not been merged yet, as far as
I know.
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