[GRLUG] large systems performance

[Bob Kline]

On Nov 16, 2007 1:21 AM, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Nov 16, 2007 1:16 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Heh.  It could start hurting even more.  Apparently they're getting
> > close to implementing swap over NFS.  It's intended for diskless
> > cluster environments, but it still stands to complicate performance
> > issues.  Sub-optimal performance?  Do you have a bad network cable, or
> > are your jobs eating too much memory?
>
> Swap over NFS has worked for years...  LTSP has (optionally) supported
> it for ages.
>
> --tim
>

If it's a real file system it would
seem to be a given that one could
have a swap file on it.  In the days
when NFS couldn't handle swap,
if there were such days,  what were
the issues?  Speed?  Possible network
congestion?

   -Bob
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