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Re: klibc only initramfs



Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> When 100 nodes all want to talk to the one bootserver then that one poor
> port will be overflown. With switches you won't have collisions like in
> the old days when they would combine exponentially but you still get
> slowdowns.

Add more switches. Add more network cards to your boot-server. Add a second
bootserver if necessary. Or just don't boot all machines at the same time (hint:
that might also save your building's power supply...).

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