Re: NFS-swap and NFS slowness questions

[August Hörandl <hoerandl@elina.htlw1.ac.at>]

"Prokopski Grzegorz El.I" wrote:
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> My questions aren't directly about netboot so fogive me.
> Also i think that my problems are often the problems of people using
> netboot and etherboot, so it isn't wrong topic for that discussion list.
> If You don't think so - I do really sorry for the letter You're reading.
> 
> Better I'll come to the point immedietly.
> 
> Is there a path for 2.0.36 (i use it at the moment) kernel which allows it
> to use NFS- swap?
> Or NFS-swap is normally compiled in 2.0.36 (or 2.2.X???) but i don't know
> how to use it?

try http://elina.htlw1.ac.at/linux/Remote_Boot/
there are 2 links for nfs swap (see: Network Block Device, NFS Swap) an
a lot of other useful info

> I get lot's of error messages when i try to do:
> mkswap /tmp/swapfile (works OK)
> swapon /tmp/swapfile (after that i get a few errors :( )
> 
> Are there any complications with using NFS-swap? Somebody tryed to use it?

it is slow and it isnt easy to iplement in the kernel (what is if the
kernel has no free memory left and wants to swap and needs some memory
for the buffer to send the packet ...)

> (My diskless have only 16MB ram and I want to use it for sth
> better than fvwm2 - maybe GNOME? or KDE? - which would be better in your
> opinion?

kde needs (a lot) more cpu power und memory than fvwm2

> I need also StarOffice and Netscape - where can i get older version of
> netscape? (for linux of course)

staroffice and netscape use a lot of memory; i have diskless
pc with 32 mb and netscape crashes sometimes because of 
"out of memory", star office wont even start with only 32 mb); but it
is possible to start the application on the server and display it on 
the diskless clients

> Or is it only my dream to use those programs in my situation?
> anyway - windows95 works OK on those diskless !!!

windows works okay - no remark on this one ;-)

> but has a swap using Novell 3.11 disks)

Gustl

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