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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.