* Re: [9fans] swap files for diskless cpu/auth servers
@ 2001-09-25 17:34 forsyth
2001-09-28 3:21 ` Sam Ducksworth
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From: forsyth @ 2001-09-25 17:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
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that's certainly what i do
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From: Sam Ducksworth <sam@ducksworth.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] swap files for diskless cpu/auth servers
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:18:17 -0500 (CDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0109251104240.8677-100000@lucifer.ducksworth.com>
i am setting up multiple diskless cpu/auth servers and have a
question about swap files. is it proper to create a small filesystem
on the file server and allocate swap files from that location
or should i just create them off of "main" ?
i personally think that they should be placed on a seperate filesystem
that is not dumped. i just do not see the value in wasting dump space
on backups of swap files.
--sam
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* Re: [9fans] swap files for diskless cpu/auth servers
2001-09-25 17:34 [9fans] swap files for diskless cpu/auth servers forsyth
@ 2001-09-28 3:21 ` Sam Ducksworth
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From: Sam Ducksworth @ 2001-09-28 3:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
yes i think i will set up the swap on a separate
filesystem when i build my new filesever. thanks guys
--sam
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* Re: [9fans] swap files for diskless cpu/auth servers
2001-09-25 17:47 presotto
@ 2001-09-26 14:22 ` Dan Cross
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From: Dan Cross @ 2001-09-26 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
In article <20010925174747.527EF19A05@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
>Swapping works so badly in our system that its hardly
>worth turning on at all. Definitely don't waste the
>space.
Yeah, but sometimes, when recompiling the system on my diskless CPU
server with half a gig of RAM and no swap, I get an out of memory
error linking ghostscript and the build stops. If I restart it on
my laptop, which has 128 megs of RAM and however much swap space, it
works fine. Kind of a bummer.
But definately don't waste dump space for swap....
- Dan C.
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* re: [9fans] swap files for diskless cpu/auth servers
@ 2001-09-25 17:47 presotto
2001-09-26 14:22 ` Dan Cross
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From: presotto @ 2001-09-25 17:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Swapping works so badly in our system that its hardly
worth turning on at all. Definitely don't waste the
space.
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* Re: [9fans] swap files for diskless cpu/auth servers
@ 2001-09-25 16:31 anothy
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From: anothy @ 2001-09-25 16:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
seperate (un-dumped) file system, definatly.
but then, with ram as cheap as it is, and Plan
9 as efficient as it is, i don't think i've swapped
in many months.
-α.
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* [9fans] swap files for diskless cpu/auth servers
@ 2001-09-25 16:18 Sam Ducksworth
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From: Sam Ducksworth @ 2001-09-25 16:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
i am setting up multiple diskless cpu/auth servers and have a
question about swap files. is it proper to create a small filesystem
on the file server and allocate swap files from that location
or should i just create them off of "main" ?
i personally think that they should be placed on a seperate filesystem
that is not dumped. i just do not see the value in wasting dump space
on backups of swap files.
--sam
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