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List:       lustre-discuss
Subject:    [Lustre-discuss] Swap over lustre
From:       psharfstein () vrinc ! com (Phil Sharfstein)
Date:       2011-08-18 18:37:36
Message-ID: 2768AA2003A10041A253AFF4DBC91B1301F76BC2 () khufu ! vistaresearchinc ! com
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Since you are considering other options, I would recommend NBD swap for this type of \
minimal swapping application.  Look at the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) \
implementation using nbdswapd, a simple inetd-driven script that creates and exports \
NBD swap spaces.  We have been using this successfully on our diskless nodes for \
several years.

You can grab the nbdswapd script for the server-side and the ltsp-init-common script \
for an example client setup from any of the latest LTSP binary distributions.

-Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: lustre-discuss-bounces@lists.lustre.org on behalf of John Hanks
Sent: Thu 8/18/2011 7:30 AM
To: Temple Jason
Cc: lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Swap over lustre
 
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Temple  Jason <jtemple at cscs.ch> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I experimented with swap on lustre in as many ways as possible (without touching \
> the code), and had the shortest path possible to no avail. ?The code is not able to \
> handle it at all, and the system always hung. 
> Without serious code rewrites, this isn't going to work for you.
> 
> -Jason
> 

Lacking the skills and time for what Andreas suggested, I think my
approach will be to abandon this direction for the moment. Thanks to
everyone for your responses. If I find time to learn how to provide
useful debugging and feedback, the list will be the first to know :)

jbh
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