RE: Local disks in a diskless RHEL setup???

["Chiu, PCM (Peter) " <P C M Chiu rl ac uk>]

A following on question, is swapping still an issue
if there is "enough" physical memory installed on the system.

I don't know how much is enough, but nowadays it is
not uncommon to have 1GB memory.  Much of it is used
as cached from what I can see.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: taroon-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com]
On Behalf Of Jeffrey Siegal
Sent: 14 July 2004 18:29
To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
Subject: Re: Local disks in a diskless RHEL setup???


Brent M. Clements wrote:
> If I wanted to use the local disk on each sys for let's say...scratch. 
> how would I configure each client to wipe that scratch partition at 
> each boot and then remake the partition, then mount it for use?
> 
> I have a few ideas, but I wanted to see how everyone else would do it.

I'd try setting up the disk as swap, and use tmpfs.

However, given the problems people have had with excessive swapping, 
this might not be a good fit for some workloads.



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