"Dirk W. Steinberg" wrote:
>
> Alan,
>
> what you say sound a lot like a hacker solution ("check that it uses the
> right GFP_ levels"). I think it's about time that this deficit of linux
> as compared to SunOS or *BSD should be removed. Network paging should be
> supported as a standard feature of a stock kernel compile.
>
We have swapping over NBD running for some time now on
our "xS+S Diskless Client" system, and it works really
fine! No problem running StarOffice, Netscape, The Gimp
and KDE on a 128MB Diskless Client and 250MB swap over a
100MBit switched ethernet!
Check <http://www.xss.co.at/linux/NBD/Applications.html>
to find our solution for that.
Kernel patches are a little bit outdated, but we have NBD swap
for 2.2.19 running internally since this week, and we will
update our web-page soon.
Let us hear if it works for you.
Regards,
- andreas
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