[gpfsug-discuss] gpfs client and turning off swap

[Damir Krstic]

Thanks - that's what I thought. We also (many refreshes ago) ran diskless
images with RedHat 6 and GPFS 3.4 and ran into no issues with having swap
off. I figured to ask in case something has changed with the Spectrum
Scale.
Damir

On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 10:31 AM <david_johnson at brown.edu> wrote:

> We have most of our clients network booted and diskless — no swap
> possible.  Gpfs still works until someone runs the node out of memory....
>
>   -- ddj
> Dave Johnson
>
> > On Nov 8, 2019, at 11:25 AM, Damir Krstic <damir.krstic at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > I was wondering if it's safe to turn off swap on gpfs client machines?
> we have a case where checkpointing is swapping and we would like to prevent
> it from doing so by disabling swap. However, the gpfs manual admin. manual
> states to have swap enabled and sufficiently large, but it does not
> distinguish between clients and IO servers.
> >
> > Let me know when you get a chance.
> >
> > Thank you.
> > Damir
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