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From: Michal 'vorner' Vaner <vorner@×××.cz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to swap on a diskless host
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 14:27:23
Message-Id: 20070527142103.GA10393@tarantula.kolej.mff.cuni.cz
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Suspend to swap on a diskless host by Dan Farrell
1 Hello
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3 AFAIK, I think you do not want to do that.
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5 First: You need to load the kernel from the swap, in the time it loads,
6 you have no running kernel (well, there is a little part, but that one
7 has no clue about network).
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9 Second: You do not want swap on nfs, since it is terribly slow, buggy,
10 nfs can allocate memory to transfer data and you get a circular problem
11 - to get a memory, you need to get a memory. And, what if your cat steps
12 on the ethernet cable?
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14 Third: the suspend does not use swap as a swap, but as a part of a disc.
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16 You might try suspend to ram, thought. It should work on diskless
17 machine as well as on any other.
18
19 --
20 When all else fails, EAT!!!
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22 Michal 'vorner' Vaner

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to swap on a diskless host Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx>
Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to swap on a diskless host Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de>