From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 13 12: 3:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [198.96.118.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97EE637B407 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:03:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgilbert@office.tor.velocet.net) Received: from office.tor.velocet.net (trooper.velocet.net [204.138.45.2]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AC70138100; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 15:03:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by office.tor.velocet.net (8.11.4/8.9.3) id f6DJ3pg60917; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 15:03:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dgilbert) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15183.17942.995110.382797@trooper.velocet.net> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 15:03:50 -0400 To: Thierry Herbelot Cc: David Gilbert , Alfred Perlstein , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Swapping in diskless ? (was :Re: [hackers] Re: getting rid of sysinstall) In-Reply-To: <3B4F3A22.EF2AC90A@herbelot.com> References: <20010712143205.D4589@sneakerz.org> <3B4E1C69.A6DC0397@herbelot.com> <15182.63564.476492.390695@trooper.velocet.net> <3B4F3A22.EF2AC90A@herbelot.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.92 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Thierry" == Thierry Herbelot 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