swapping over nfs might be broken

Bjoern Fischer bfischer at TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
Mon Jun 2 01:55:29 PDT 2003


Hello,

> > Are you saying that all the clients share the one swapfile? What happens
> > when 2 clients start swapping at the same time?
> 
> good lord, no. The default swap file ist "<client ip addr>.swap" (or
> something like that).

forgot to mention that the path transmitted by DHCP and "<client ip addr>.swap"
are concatenated. So the full path of the swapfile is

  /exports/swap/<client ip addr>.swap

(or "/exports/swap/swap.<client ip addr>"; I can't tell until I have
 access to that machine again.)

Björn

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