Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 15:03:50 -0400 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Swapping in diskless ? (was :Re: [hackers] Re: getting rid of sysinstall) Message-ID: <15183.17942.995110.382797@trooper.velocet.net> In-Reply-To: <3B4F3A22.EF2AC90A@herbelot.com> References: <bulk.72438.20010711142307@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107121211060.35209-100000@www.bloodletting.com> <20010712143205.D4589@sneakerz.org> <3B4E1C69.A6DC0397@herbelot.com> <15182.63564.476492.390695@trooper.velocet.net> <3B4F3A22.EF2AC90A@herbelot.com>
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>>>>> "Thierry" == Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> writes: Thierry> David Gilbert wrote: >> Thierry> [SNIP] >> I'm still having trouble with diskless operation. If I specify >> the swap option in DHCP, the pxeboot chokes on it. If I don't >> specify the swap there, things boot, but I have no swap. There >> isn't an obvious way to add nfs swap once a server is running. >> >> Is there a way to do this in loader.conf or loader.rc? Thierry> I don't know : my application was "embedded" and used much Thierry> less than the 128MBytes installed in the machines (thus no Thierry> swap!) I'm currently running in this configuration ... and have noticed that the system will allow clean pages (largely loaded from the executable's binary) to be recycled, but this is not an ideal position. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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