From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 19 12:24:58 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA09294 for current-outgoing; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 12:24:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA08958; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 12:22:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA16847; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 21:21:55 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA01143; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 21:21:55 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id UAA00510; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 20:53:21 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612191953.UAA00510@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 2.1.6 mandates a swap, I suggest it shouldn't To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 20:53:20 +0100 (MET) Cc: jhs@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199612190149.CAA16661@vector.jhs.no_domain> from "Julian H. Stacey" at "Dec 19, 96 02:49:56 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)