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Re: NFS-swap and NFS slowness questions



On 07-Jun-99, 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?
>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 :( )

I used NFSswap with an earlier version of the kernel, and it worked
somehow. Heavy swapping sometimes caused a lock of the system.

bye

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