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.

@david_chisnall Me! Used it to give some extra boost on a Pi when I was doing a local build of Compiler Explorer

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@david_chisnall 100% would do it again if I'm working with lowmem or olden devices (but probs backed by a ramdisk instead of real ones; think of "borrowing" some memory haha)

Beats having to wear out flash or dealing with slow drives/ports