Jim McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Well, unfortunately, you can't.
Oh no. > I've been keeping the nfs-swap patch updated, and i've only taken it as > far as 2.4.26. It may patch a 2.4.28 kernel, but i've never tried. I was actually surprised before that the supplied LTSP kernel is already 2.4.26 but the latest NFS swap patch was only at 2.4.21. > I know for certain that it won't work with a 2.6.x kernel. > > I've tried contacting the original author of the nfs-swap patch, to see > if I could get him to port it to the 2.6 kernels, but i've not received > any replies from him. > > I've seen suggestions to try swap over nbd on the 2.6 kernels, but i've > not had a chance to give it a try yet. > > Swapping over the network is the only thing holding me up from releasing > a 2.6 kernel for ltsp. In fact, i've been running a 2.6 kernel on my > client for over 2 months, with no problems. I'd just really like to > have a swap-over-network method for those folks who have small memory > clients. What is the recommended amount of physical RAM for a diskless workstation in order not to use NFS swap anymore? My diskless workstations here are all using 16MB of RAM. Thanks in advance. --- MARVIN T. PASCUAL E-mail: mpascual AT qsr DOT com DOT ph Tel. No. +63 2 9287776 Mobile No. +63 918 4115188 Yahoo! Messenger ID: bintut GNU/Linux User No. 247127 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
