From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 16 10:13:38 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1DAD7785 for ; Sat, 16 May 2015 10:13:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-x22d.google.com (mail-ie0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22d]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DDF291377 for ; Sat, 16 May 2015 10:13:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iepk2 with SMTP id k2so139922676iep.3 for ; Sat, 16 May 2015 03:13:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=yWJVGdue9uH6QXmI0CsDek7Vpp6s6OP9nulyN/MShcI=; b=oRiEUIhX3KjE6bK3rnMUAcBdhmEFZqKG3TY1ibfZ+tqcfdLxCD9eta4Jxa10pJFxtY MNYuS5UDce4xPIdNfUsY4VoWILLuH8/OQbBojYMTIqx3wRD67y04GE5YaNwnZ7wPUv2h ee8L8e/pwCZqvlzaBAisydynYpRl1SYgj0NrCXwaYIR8VzaEmWfVdlsIEHcbnOHJqV1y xajtlrYJmxiIXHoSc33Gx0HEsHDRqykdwArOlqpZPq4lGB2wH4sJkvJy1AACNojzRC+f zOJ6RHaHlZmhe+hcdWQrJ/IHw9MvQrdlIQ0Ft6QjJiDcd0qzr5637aCsLif912k/7ItN nnBg== X-Received: by 10.107.132.42 with SMTP id g42mr5723143iod.25.1431771216980; Sat, 16 May 2015 03:13:36 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.36.121.1 with HTTP; Sat, 16 May 2015 03:13:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150516120000.2a2a8a4d123d988760764441@yahoo.es> References: <20150516120000.2a2a8a4d123d988760764441@yahoo.es> From: Avinash Sonawane Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 15:43:16 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Swap partition for FreeBSD To: Eduardo Morras Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 10:13:38 -0000 On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Eduardo Morras wrote: > On Sat, 16 May 2015 13:11:18 +0530 > Avinash Sonawane wrote: > >> Hello all! >> >> I was trying to build www/webkit-gtk3 (a dependency for x11/gnome3) >> then it abruptly exited with "Out of swap space error" so I created a >> separate 8GB partition to be used as freebsd-swap. > > Why don't use a regular file as swap? Because I read somewhere that swap partition is much more faster than swap file and given that I already have 4GB RAM and then too I was posed with "out of RAM/swap space" like error (which I never anticipated) I wanted a more and faster swap. So dedicated swap partition. -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://rootkea.wordpress.com