Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 15:43:16 +0530 From: Avinash Sonawane <rootkea@gmail.com> To: Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap partition for FreeBSD Message-ID: <CAJ9BSW_SFkUk0BmozW6SsgKpAOSx6wKwEOQLUzOR1a94P9bNBg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150516120000.2a2a8a4d123d988760764441@yahoo.es> References: <CAJ9BSW9cVmd8c%2B4E5rWAd9FPDvgpwqVKDSh7962FW3-g_W9jMQ@mail.gmail.com> <20150516120000.2a2a8a4d123d988760764441@yahoo.es>
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On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es> wrote: > On Sat, 16 May 2015 13:11:18 +0530 > Avinash Sonawane <rootkea@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello all! >> >> I was trying to build www/webkit-gtk3 (a dependency for x11/gnome3) >> then it abruptly exited with "Out of swap space error" so I created a >> separate 8GB partition to be used as freebsd-swap. > > Why don't use a regular file as swap? Because I read somewhere that swap partition is much more faster than swap file and given that I already have 4GB RAM and then too I was posed with "out of RAM/swap space" like error (which I never anticipated) I wanted a more and faster swap. So dedicated swap partition. -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://rootkea.wordpress.com
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