From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 14 20:50:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from icy.phrozen.org (unknown [24.12.101.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33D0937B479 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:50:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bbauman@localhost) by icy.phrozen.org (8.11.1/8.11.0) id eAENoD717632; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:50:13 GMT (envelope-from bbauman@icy.phrozen.org) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:50:13 GMT Message-Id: <200011142350.eAENoD717632@icy.phrozen.org> From: Bruce Bauman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: NFS swap questions Reply-To: bbauman@wgate.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I want to build a medium-sized cluster of FreeBSD diskless clients which swap over NFS to a single FreeBSD server. Yes, I know someone is dying to tell me why this isn't a good idea. But I have to... Anyway, I want each client to allocate a swapfile on the NFS server on-the-fly and then swap to it. I DON'T want to pre-allocate swapfiles for every possible client on the server. Can I just arrange my rc.diskless environment so that I dd to swapfile. on the server and then start swapping to it? How do I add the just-created swapfile as swap on my client? One more question: If all of my swapfiles live in a single partition, do I want the partition to be mounted async and noatime? Any other recommended tweaks for better performance? Thanks for any help. -- Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message