Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 07:28:17PM +0100, David Fokkema wrote:
> > 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.
>
> From http://nbd.sourceforge.net/
>
> Current state: It currently works. Network block device seems to be
> pretty stable. It was originaly thought that it is impossible to swap
> over TCP. This turned out not to be true, though the patch required to
> make it safe has not been forward-ported to any reasonably recent
> kernel.
I doubt this information is entirely accurate. Older network-swap
patches that were floating around the net never solved the problem
properly.
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