On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, PiousMinion wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to set up a machine with no swap so it'll suspend to a file
>> on a remote server accessible only through an 802.11 card? Sure, it'll be
>> slow, but that's OK. Right now the share is via Samba but I could figure
>> out NFS if Samba is a no-go.
>
> Running with no swap isn't generally a good idea unless you've got a butt
> load of ram, but if you have a butt load of ram you probably have a few gigs
> to spare on your machine. *shrugs*
My "hard drive" is a CF card and because of its write limit, I run without
swap and I live with the slowness.
> There is also a huge security concern if trying to dump the entire contents
> of your ram to a remote location. All your passwords, encryption keys, web
> sessions, and everything else will be transmitted and stored somewhere else.
> Yikes.
Sure, I wouldn't do this across the net. But it's my LAN, both ends are my
machines, and they have nonroutable addresses so I'm not worried about the
data leaking out.
> I'm fairly sure this can be done if you prepare an appropriate
> initrd/initramfs, but I seriously doubt any distribution supports anything
> like this natively. You'd likely have to modify the initrd/initramfs by
> hand.
>
> Again, this is a very bad idea, but should be possible.
Noted. Thanks.
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