Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 21:23:25 +0200 From: Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap partition for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20150516212325.6a94acff3ba0ad69ddfcafb0@yahoo.es> In-Reply-To: <CAJ9BSW_SFjJ-1z7xeYStmLV2tSFG7JZgpV2jq7MwGQpF=inVXw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJ9BSW9cVmd8c%2B4E5rWAd9FPDvgpwqVKDSh7962FW3-g_W9jMQ@mail.gmail.com> <20150516120000.2a2a8a4d123d988760764441@yahoo.es> <CAJ9BSW_SFkUk0BmozW6SsgKpAOSx6wKwEOQLUzOR1a94P9bNBg@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ9BSW_SFjJ-1z7xeYStmLV2tSFG7JZgpV2jq7MwGQpF=inVXw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 16 May 2015 15:45:08 +0530 Avinash Sonawane <rootkea@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Avinash Sonawane <rootkea@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es> > > wrote: > >> On Sat, 16 May 2015 13:11:18 +0530 > >> Avinash Sonawane <rootkea@gmail.com> 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) Well.... some points (+) to use a swap file: a) faster creation / delete. Root shell script can do it in one step. b) don't need to touch your partitions/slices scheme. An error on this step and your server/pc becomes a brick for a while c) the difference in speed with/to a partition dedicated swap is minimal or null d) the work, compile gnome3, would be finished yesterday ;) (yes, this is a smile) some points (-) to use swap file: a) may have less speed (each write access needs to modify the file metadata and journal if su+j is active) b) you don't learn how to work with slices and partitions on FreeBSD or repair them The link you provide, it's an answer from 2010 to a Linux user. Some points would not be applicable to FreeBSD or be outdated. --- --- Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es>
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