David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) on Nostr: I just remembered a time we ran out of memory on a very slow machine that had no hard ...
I just remembered a time we ran out of memory on a very slow machine that had no hard disk and discovered that you could use a file on NFS as a swap device (it worked, and we were able to complete the thing we needed to do, but it was *very* slow), but now I’m wondering if anyone is doing swap over iSCSI.
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