Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-04 Thread Bill Gatliff
Peter Palfrader wrote: On Wed, 02 Jan 2008, Bill Gatliff wrote: The kernel is NOT running the nbd swap patch, so I don't know if the system will deadlock under stress, or not... Upgraded the chroots last night - or tried to. It has exceptionally slow so I had to leave it running

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-03 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 21:32 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:17:46PM -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote: Ok, I've set up a 5GB swap over NBD. If the system reboots, it won't automagically reattach it. The kernel is NOT running the nbd swap patch, so I don't know if

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-03 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 07:28:17PM +0100, David Fokkema wrote: Peter Zijlstra and Daniel Phillips have been posting patches to fix the underlying issue, but those have not been merged yet, as far as I know. From http://nbd.sourceforge.net/ Current state: It currently works. Network

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 07:28:17PM +0100, David Fokkema wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 21:32 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:17:46PM -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote: Ok, I've set up a 5GB swap over NBD. If the system reboots, it won't automagically reattach it.

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-02 Thread Wookey
On 2008-01-02 11:00 -0500, Camm Maguire wrote: I requested this a few weeks ago too -- don't know if the message got through. It did, but may not have been spotted by Bill on the end of the fortran transition thread. Bill Gatliff is the man with the access to add RAM or swap. I suspect he

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-02 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 02 Jan 2008, Wookey wrote: On 2008-01-02 11:00 -0500, Camm Maguire wrote: I requested this a few weeks ago too -- don't know if the message got through. It did, but may not have been spotted by Bill on the end of the fortran transition thread. Bill Gatliff is the man with the

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-02 Thread Bill Gatliff
Guys: Ok, I've set up a 5GB swap over NBD. If the system reboots, it won't automagically reattach it. The kernel is NOT running the nbd swap patch, so I don't know if the system will deadlock under stress, or not... b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-02 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 01:00:02PM -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote: Ok, I've set up a 5GB swap over NBD. If the system reboots, it won't automagically reattach it. The kernel is NOT running the nbd swap patch, so I don't know if the system will deadlock under stress, or not... It most likely

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-02 Thread Bill Gatliff
Lennert Buytenhek wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 01:00:02PM -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote: Ok, I've set up a 5GB swap over NBD. If the system reboots, it won't automagically reattach it. The kernel is NOT running the nbd swap patch, so I don't know if the system will deadlock under stress,

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-02 Thread Martin Guy
2008/1/2, Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Lennert Buytenhek wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 01:00:02PM -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote: Ok, I've set up a 5GB swap over NBD. If the system reboots, it won't automagically reattach it. The kernel is NOT running the nbd swap patch, so I don't know

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-02 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:17:46PM -0600, Bill Gatliff wrote: Ok, I've set up a 5GB swap over NBD. If the system reboots, it won't automagically reattach it. The kernel is NOT running the nbd swap patch, so I don't know if the system will deadlock under stress, or not... It most

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-02 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 08:30:07PM +, Martin Guy wrote: I run NDB swap on little arms and qemus routinely and have never had a lockup despite stressing them. You obviously haven't stressed your systems hard enough, then. :) Current mainline kernels all eventually deadlock when swapping

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-02 Thread Bill Gatliff
Martin Guy wrote: I run NDB swap on little arms and qemus routinely and have never had a lockup despite stressing them. The trick is *not* to include nbd-client's -swap flag, with which, if i remember correctly, it doesn't work at all. Indeed. With that flag, nbd-client won't run at all.

Re: more ram/swap on leisner, please?

2008-01-02 Thread Bill Gatliff
Lennert Buytenhek wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 08:30:07PM +, Martin Guy wrote: I run NDB swap on little arms and qemus routinely and have never had a lockup despite stressing them. You obviously haven't stressed your systems hard enough, then. :) Heh, maybe because