>
Yes,
the same problem happens in the swap-over-NFS case: the nfs client
needs to allocate some memory (which is not disponible) , the the system
tries to
swap out pages via NFS, leading to an infinite recursion ...
I am not a kernel hacker, but I agree wich Luca thatthe RAID code
should inc
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 05:48:00PM +0100, Benno Senoner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I heard that actually soft-raid for Linux can't swap over a /dev/md*
> device.
>
> I don't know how much slower it is to swap do a regular file instead
> using the raw partition,
Benno,
if i remember correctly the sw
Benno Senoner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't know how much slower it is to swap do a regular file instead
> using the raw partition,
You can't swap to a file on a software RAID-1/5 filesystem either.
--
Osma Ahvenlampi
i am the one who suggested lots of ram to AVOID swapping. i never said
turn off swap. that is silly thing to do.
i have never setup a swapfile. anyone else ever to that over raid?
al
"so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know.
money isn't our god, integrity will free o
so what you are saying is that in the case of drive failure, we will lose
that data, unless we have a hardware raid.
how does the kernel map those pages to disk if the file is on an md
device? since you say it does not access the fs, does it just
auto. stripe the data across the constituent part
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 05:48:00PM +0100, Benno Senoner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I heard that actually soft-raid for Linux can't swap over a /dev/md*
> device.
True and false.
You can swap over Linear, and RAID-0, but there's no point. See the HOWTO :)
...
>
> I don't know how much slower it is to s
I believe I read in the RAID HowTo that you shouldn't put swap memory on a
RAID; the swap daemon stripes it automatically over multiple partitions.
Don't know if it's anywhere near redundant though.
-Robin
>Hi,
>
>I heard that actually soft-raid for Linux can't swap over a /dev/md*
>device.
>
>
Hi,
I heard that actually soft-raid for Linux can't swap over a /dev/md*
device.
Someone suggests that putting enough RAM into a box, can avoid swapping,
but I think it is safe to have some swap space, in the case a process
eats up much
memory for short time, to prevent that pages of executable
