From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 3 01:40:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 713B316A417 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 01:40:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eugenu2@yahoo.com) Received: from web56903.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web56903.mail.re3.yahoo.com [66.196.97.92]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D49913C442 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 01:40:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eugenu2@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 9698 invoked by uid 60001); 3 Jan 2008 01:13:28 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=WA2LOjL5GXFH8CH0fJ/lYt9OjTwXPC4TXmLMGG8pNdlXdeiPyVIzb3RttcBsZAvQb6vOMLMWi+Yxw5d+VFOUsWYvgfZR9ggtZ9Fy4Fp4pEeBi7VbbY3JAs3E5dsLFYCVyUj9Igv21U1TwPQxFcY+o2pzgdtfjAHr41arkjg3ppg=; X-YMail-OSG: 9.pVQrcVM1mupStXPmEN5h5MFWbKjD8X.yhxMta8.veIohkL2Bn7tAcYl6ino.uHunh8C4h7DOuxbVrSKM5QyU9xE.nE.UUJs.kTbAHz0QfnTt.f4xq4gn9ETcpHqw-- Received: from [24.79.83.239] by web56903.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:13:28 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/818.31 YahooMailWebService/0.7.158.1 Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 17:13:28 -0800 (PST) From: Eugen Udma To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <905908.9692.qm@web56903.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Subject: Swap partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:40:09 -0000 Hello, I have FreeBSD installed on my desktop, with 2 GB of RAM and 4 GB swap partition and this swap partition is very seldom touched by the system and then only 2-3% used. I want to install FreeBSD on a laptop with 4 GB of RAM and a hard disk of 100 GB. Should I waste 8 GB for a swap partition, as it is recommended in the handbook? Thanks for any advice, Eugen Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/