>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Matt> Right, you only need swap to be able to flush dirty pages.
Matt> Clean code (and even clean data) pages are simply dropped and
Matt> reloaded from the disk image later on if needed again. With
Matt> careful program management you can run without swap.
Matt> Also, do performance testing with dynamic-linked verses
Matt> static-linked binaries. Static-linked binaries may look larger,
Matt> but they have a much lower dirty-page overhead then the
Matt> dynamically linked equivalent. It depends on the situation but
Matt> it is definitely worth testing.
Is it not possible (or has nobody done it) to swap with the current
diskless boot? Of all people, I would have expected Matt to be able
to help :).
I have quite a few systems netbooting using etherboot floppies
(incidentally running 3.4) ... and they use NFS swap just fine. I
would really like the same thing with the PXE boot.
Is it possibly as simple as making pxeboot ignore the swap DHCP tag?
Does anyone here hack pxeboot?
Dave.
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