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From: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD diskless
Date: 25 Aug 1995 17:52:49 GMT
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
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Thomas Graichen (graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de) wrote:
: hello
: has anybody set up a (or some ...) FreeBSD machines diskless - with root
: _and_ swap via nfs - i've got it working so far very good - but only with
: local swap - if i try to use swapping over nfs the system comes up ok - but
: short after it starts swapping many processes die on signals 11 and
: sometimes 6 and the machine hangs - are there any tricks i don't know ?
: thanks in advance - t
: p.s.: it's FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE
i've now solved the problem - simply use dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=...
count=... for craeting the swapfile and not touch like said in the Diskless
FAQ - and it seems that the size of that file must be exactly the size of
the swapsize parameter in cfg.X.X.X.X
t
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