Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/9] deadlock prevention core

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Sat Aug 19 2006 - 11:06:17 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:

- We expect that the lots-of-dirty-anon-memory-over-swap-over-network
scenario might still cause deadlocks.

I assert that this can be solved by putting swap on local disks. Peter
asserts that this isn't acceptable due to disk unreliability. I point
out that local disk reliability can be increased via MD, all goes quiet.

A good exposition which helps us to understand whether and why a
significant proportion of the target user base still wishes to do
swap-over-network would be useful.

You cannot put disks in many models of blade servers.

At all.

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