I need to boot and run Tru64 boxes (Alphas) without a disk. They will be booted across a network from another Tru64 Alpha acting as the server, and the applications will have more than enough memory to avoid swapping. The catch seems to be that the OS expects to be able to swap, and for the most part, they want to do it on a local device. However, I have been led to believe that it is possible.
I understand that the Diskless Driver for Digital UNIX would make it possible to swap to an NFS mounted drive, but that would require extra software and unnecessary complication; as I mentioned, there is no need to swap given very small applications and more than enough RAM.
Any chance that someone has a procedure for doing this?
Is there a way to turn off swapping all together?
What about using a Memory File System to provide the space for the swap as a workaround?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Patrick Norris
Patrick.Norris_at_trw.com
Received on Tue Dec 12 2000 - 02:36:39 NZDT