[Gllug] Linux - big not small

[Rich Walker]

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.

(I have an old dual-PPRO compaq I just powered up after a year in
storage. First thing *it* did on booting was hunt down an extra 512MB
NBD-accessed swap partition on the server I had forgotten existed!)

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