Re: NFS-SWAP
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Ragnar Wisloff wrote:
| Jonas Smedegaard skrev:
|> Let me put it differently: Do you recall the setup of those thin clients
|> stabilizing with NFS-swap enabled? Did they have 32MB ram or even less
|> than that? Did they use 10Mbit or 100Mbit NICs? PCI bus? Do you recall
|> the brand and name of the the machines?
|
|
| There were mostly old Dell recycled PCs. They varied wildy in spec, from
| P75/16MB RAM to P3s with 256 MB RAM. If you are coming to the Skolelinux
| developers meet at then end of the month, I can show you. The clients
| are at that school. The lab had stability problems, the symptoms were
| classic low-memory: clients would work for a while, then suddenly
| without warning "restart".
Thanks for the details. (I didn't actually need the thorough explanation
of kernel behaviour, but thanks for that too, anyway: others might find
it useful)
|> Off course, if you refer to "a whole bunch of different setups all
|> behaving exactly the same" then my question is irrelevant - but that
|> info is indeed relevant (so that I waste no more time digging into this).
|>
|
| I guess this is true, lots of different clients all behaving the same.
| There should not be a need to dig too deep, it's a simple problem to
| both diagnose and solve. If you have thin clients with RAM >= 32 MB RAM,
| use NFS swap :-)
Ahem, I think you meant the opposite there: if RAM <= 32 MB then use NFS
swap :-)
Just a thought: Maybe it would be possible to isolate the cause of the
problem by somehow recognize when the NFS swap is actually used and take
a snapshot of the processes running on the client, together with their
footprint. This could help reveal any memory leaks or otherwise bloated
processes.
~ - Jonas
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