Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:10:01 +0100 From: Slawek Zak <zaks@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl> To: Marcin Dalecki <mdcki@gmx.net> Subject: Re: sysinstall + swap partition requirement Message-ID: <20021127151001.GC50355@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl> In-Reply-To: <3DE4DEE8.8000808@gmx.net> References: <3DE4DEE8.8000808@gmx.net>
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On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:04:08PM +0100, Marcin Dalecki wrote: > During a fresh install of the DP2 I noticed that sysinstall didn't > allow me to configure the system *without* any swap paritions. > > Well this doesn't make sense, since: > > 1. The system has perfectly fine 192MB of RAM, thus the installation > should scceed anyway... > > 2. I intendid to use SWAP-over-vnode to work around GCC's "template > compilation > eats RAM" struggle. > > I guess this "safety check" is a leftover from the days where one had > typically > 16MB of RAM + 100MB of swap on a system... I don't know if anything has changed in 5.x, but VM in BSDs in general doesn't work too well without swap. Swap is useful for system crash gathering anyway. /S To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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