[Gllug] Linux - big not small

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On Thu, 04 Aug 2005, Rich Walker gibbered uncontrollably:
> Adrian McMenamin <adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
>> On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 19:47 +0100, John Hearns wrote:
> 
>>> Well, in that case you could swap to a RAM disk.
>>
>> :)
>>
>> In my experience swapping to nfs is a surefire way to bring down your
>> system
> 
> Use NBD, it's what it is for.

That's currently lethally deadlock-prone too... although iSCSI is
likely to force use of an emergency pool for allocations in case
of low memory; the idea is to immediately discard non-swap-related
network packets, so you don't need to allocate memory for them.

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