what about serving the swap partition over iscsi ? <br><ul><li>On the server, create a lun linked to the swap partition [iscsi target]<br></li><li>On the thin client, use the iscsi lun as a regular scsi disk (partition/mkswap/swapon or a slew of conf files) [iscsi initiator]<br>
</li></ul><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Chris Fowler <<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 03:56 -0400, <a href="mailto:ale-request@ale.org">ale-request@ale.org</a> wrote:<br>
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> Maybe I'm missing something, but if your thin clients are powerful<br>
> enough to run firefox and flash smoothly, why are they being used as<br>
> thin clients? Wouldn't a setup like Chris is trying to accomplish<br>
> (swap<br>
> and root fs over the network, with the appropriate tmpfses so that<br>
> multiple clients don't clobber /var/run etc) be just as easy to<br>
> administer and require less beefy server hardware?<br>
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</div>Well, my server is my desktop. It has about 120GB of disk and 1GB of<br>
RAM. I'm find with these devices using disk I/O but I do not need them<br>
chewing up my memory. evolution, firefox, and vmplayer do a good enough<br>
job wasting memory as it is.<br>
<br>
I was thinking about the multi-client one nfs root idea and had not<br>
thought about giving them their own /var/run, /tmp, /var/log, etc<br>
directories yet. My idea was simply to copy the full system<br>
for /nfsroot/001, 002, 003, etc. These systems only occupy 2GB of disk<br>
and I plan to only have 2 at my host at the most.<br>
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