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Date:      Thu, 19 Dec 1996 20:53:20 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Cc:        jhs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 2.1.6 mandates a swap, I suggest it shouldn't
Message-ID:  <199612191953.UAA00510@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199612190149.CAA16661@vector.jhs.no_domain> from "Julian H. Stacey" at "Dec 19, 96 02:49:56 am"

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As Julian H. Stacey wrote:

> Reason I suggest we not mandate a swap:  space.
> I was installing a small disc without space for swap,
> as I needed a little system up, for diagnosing other problems.

Why didn't you simply put 100 KB or so swap only there?  I don't think
that running FreeBSD without swap makes any sense at all (i'm fairly
confident that you'll experience randomly killed processes), but if
you really think you should do this, then simply assign as few swap as
you want.

Of course, it would be better to devote the 80 MB disk entirely as
swap space, and use another disk for the system. :)  (My usual systems
have between 100 and 200 MB swap for 32 MB RAM.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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