How can I test that NBD Swap is working?

[Jim Kronebusch]

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 09:46:38 -0500, Jim Kronebusch wrote
> I don't think that nbdswap is working right.  When the client boots it creates 
> a file in /tmp on the server with the correct swap size.  However if I load a 
> graphic intense website that uses up available RAM and the client freezes, it 
> freezes at the same point whether swap is set to 32MB or 128MB.  This leads me 
> to believe it is not taking advantage of the swap space.  This is running 
> Edubuntu 7.04, I have "NBD_SWAP=True" in "/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf" and 
> have created a "/etc/ltsp/nbdswapd.conf" file which contains the line "SIZE=128".

Jim McQuillan just told me to run "free" at the command line of a client to see if SWAP
is listed.

I am going to check that now.

Jim

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