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Date:      Thu, 3 Jan 2008 01:54:31 +0000
From:      RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Swap partition
Message-ID:  <20080103015431.37810126@gumby.homeunix.com.>
In-Reply-To: <905908.9692.qm@web56903.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
References:  <905908.9692.qm@web56903.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

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On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 17:13:28 -0800 (PST)
Eugen Udma <eugenu2@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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?


Probably not. The twice the ram rule is for people who may need to
debug kernel panics.




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