From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 29 13:01:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA15450 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:01:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA15441 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:00:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.65] by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0yUd2K-0005rC-00; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:01:00 -0700 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA22504; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 12:59:10 -0700 Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 12:59:10 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: NFS -vs- swap (was SIGDANGER) To: Terry Lambert cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199804290208.TAA07145@usr01.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > My main rant, which Jordan alluded to, is that I think it should be > possible to preload all necessary pages into swap, and back them with > swap rather than with the program image. > > The primary reason for doing this is so that your dataless machine > or Network Computer does not freeze waiting for a pagein if the NFS > server becomes unavailable for whatever reason. > > Having worked in an environment where most of engineering was running > on dataless machines with local swap and local auxillary disk, but > running most applciations from a central server (much easier to maintain > 40+ engineers this way), and having had 40+ people become unproductive > while the NFS server reboots... well, it became a design issue for me. This sounds like a good environment for a cachefs on top of the appropriate NFS mounts. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message