From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Sep 10 10:23:14 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACB71108B118 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2018 10:23:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4F93F79FE0 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2018 10:23:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1536574994; x=1539166994; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=3sVJQYIQLuf/UvSKv8+Fc3R1bwW/EpE4U9rmzlLobPs=; b=SfC3MgLu24jqEEWAE2wYPmxO3/tz8og7DoYDL+2+kScslK+Rain9EkHjpoXMWPXOBII4b+2k32b1makUudtWbcxpe/C3DxUMNfzKjZ5HVyDqN7n6Rb9Q0FPzRoRgSPACgJTfxEvCRLLllFg46vrN2sHnJ2rsGtEPKV6UMV+oN8A= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi4xOTkwMDAwMDFkZTQ5YTcuZnJlZWJzZC1xdWVzdGlvbnM9ZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc= Received: from r3.sg.in.socketlabs.com (r3.sg.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.179.13]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP; Mon, 10 Sep 2018 06:23:00 -0400 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [89.127.62.20]) by r3.sg.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Mon, 10 Sep 2018 06:23:00 -0400 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.91 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1fzJLP-000Ftq-8Z for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2018 10:22:59 +0000 Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:22:57 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap config Message-Id: <20180910112257.0d821c5a8d471a66702572d5@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <201809100903.w8A93QsD052977@mail.lan.sohara.org> References: <10538979.gLySxXtyIk@chameleon.friedrich.org> <20180910005743.3bf5df59@gumby.homeunix.com> <201809100903.w8A93QsD052977@mail.lan.sohara.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.1) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 10:23:14 -0000 On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:02:08 +0000 "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > Are you sure? What about an old system with 256 or 512 MB RAM that would > need swap > 4 * RAM? There's a 256MB Raspberry Pi running FreeBSD on my LAN - it has no swap enabled. You don't always need huge amounts of memory available. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith