Rik van Riel wrote:
Andrew Morton wrote:
- We expect that the lots-of-dirty-anon-memory-over-swap-over-network
scenario might still cause deadlocks.
I assert that this can be solved by putting swap on local disks.
Peter
asserts that this isn't acceptable due to disk unreliability. I point
out that local disk reliability can be increased via MD, all goes
quiet.
A good exposition which helps us to understand whether and why a
significant proportion of the target user base still wishes to do
swap-over-network would be useful.
You cannot put disks in many models of blade servers.
At all.
Or many thin clients in general. They are used in quite a few schools
over here, running Linux.
Some of them do in fact have space for disks, but disks adds costs
(heat, power, replacing failed drives)
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