From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 16 10:15:29 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 89649815 for ; Sat, 16 May 2015 10:15:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-x229.google.com (mail-ie0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::229]) (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 54DBC1385 for ; Sat, 16 May 2015 10:15:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ieczm2 with SMTP id zm2so67751371iec.1 for ; Sat, 16 May 2015 03:15:28 -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=NDyGEE443I4e5SdHTdELhKvm68zAe00JB5NPnzC4OWc=; b=TNOY1QGkX5B/hwO8UF7WrXaEMDFMpoUpQzWC4/V2zh3MkskeVBpC39KrK1AVHiImBL +lCZcgqPFekD7vgXKFEDv+qADR6+HsK2oDnvON+ohQki6EIOOjGHMT5gbeTcosemGL+0 OCRInxYuqKT1riH9ixJOswQzV+4T8E7Q3sfNzSWDCYmdiwy2p1/uI1Ruz3Aa1aaxrRG6 wO2AWGq51VuYFy5wuk9G8SvOlfLgSUya/rKesOclKy3mFAtouFykJeEclLhVio7TWq2X qnKz2EwRFkLl+9gETqBRRi9tCubtFbDkgvS4uOSdGsxIsyfcFvO5q8tWy54/Ph4EIq4k adVQ== X-Received: by 10.50.43.196 with SMTP id y4mr3440576igl.14.1431771328773; Sat, 16 May 2015 03:15:28 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.36.121.1 with HTTP; Sat, 16 May 2015 03:15:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20150516120000.2a2a8a4d123d988760764441@yahoo.es> From: Avinash Sonawane Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 15:45:08 +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 10:15:29 -0000 On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > 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 May be this will justify: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/2211 -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://rootkea.wordpress.com