Diskless Nodes... (Not Again!)
Wyatt Draggoo
phraktyl at MailAndNews.com
Fri Dec 22 15:17:25 PST 2000
I'd wondered about that. But at 40MB it failed, and at 36MB it didn't have
enough room. I was hoping that there was something magic that happened at
64MB.
So, I set it back to 32MB, and took a lot out with vmadlib (I'd somehow missed
that when I was looking before...) and they boot up now.
Does vmadlib automatically grab everything out of /usr/lib/* and /lib/* to
push
over? I had a bunch of libraries (gnome, gnome-print, GIMP, etc) going over
when I don't think they need to (obviously not, because they boot without
them).
Where does it keep a list of the libraries that the nodes use as compared to
the master?
Thanks,
Wyatt
>The above fstab file creates a 64MB ramdisk on the nodes. Your nodes have
>64MB.
>
>Try ratcheting this size down to 40MB or so and see if they come up.
>
>Once you get it running, you can use vmadlib to trim the library list
>and trim the node ramdisk accordingly. As I have mentioned elsewhere
>on the list, the remote ramdisk can be made quite small with some effort.
--
Wyatt Draggoo
Network Administrator
More information about the Beowulf
mailing list