Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 12:59:10 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS -vs- swap (was SIGDANGER) Message-ID: <ML-3.3.893879950.3134.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <199804290208.TAA07145@usr01.primenet.com>
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> 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
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