swap_pager indefinite wait buffer - question - SOLVED

[Carsten Mattner]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 12:43 AM, PeerCorps Trust Fund
<ipc at peercorpstrust.org> wrote:
> Indeed in Tanzania :) we have a couple of technology initiatives taking place at the
> moment and *BSD is at the center in many ways. The delivery of educational
> materials and books to resource-limited communities is an important aim of
> these initiatives.
>
> We actually used FreeBSD in our first effort, but want to experiment with some
> of the capabilities of DragonflyBSD and HAMMER in the next one. In our
> estimation we can possibly stretch our hardware and funds a bit further with
> DragonflyBSD/HAMMER owing to its low resource requirements.

Ah nice. Is it the same project we heard recently of with photos of a library
room running PCBSD machines with a video and document library?


> On 12/25/2014 11:20 PM, Carsten Mattner wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 7:08 PM, PeerCorps Trust Fund
>> <ipc at peercorpstrust.org> wrote:
>>> I just wanted to take the opportunity update a previous post that I made to the
>>> list concerning a swap_pager concern. It isn't an issue at all but the fault of my
>>> own ignorance and hardware limits.
>>>
>>> The external drive in question was simply not pulling enough power from the
>>> USB port of the laptop. This was likely resulting in a stalled drive when anything
>>> substantial was being copied to it.
>>>
>>> This has since been solved by connecting the drive first to an externally powered
>>> USB hub. So, if there is anyone else out there having a similar issue, trying this
>>> seems to do the trick. Alternatively, just use a drive that is powered externally.
>>>
>>> Everything works beautifully now and this low cost experiment for a simple file
>>> server will find a home in a school classroom next year.
>>
>> In Tanzania?
>>
>> FreeBSD had a writeup about a set of PCBSD machines installed in Nigeria IIRC.
>>
>> A blog post or other writeup to link on dragonflybsd.org would surely be nice.
>>
>