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Date:      Sun, 26 May 2013 01:58:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "M. V." <bored_to_death85@yahoo.com>
To:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   "swap" partition leads to instability?
Message-ID:  <1369558712.96152.YahooMailNeo@web165006.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

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hi everyone,

I have a 24/7 network server/gateway with FreeBSD-8.2 on a SSD drive. it's partitioned as normal (/ , /tmp, /var , /usr and swap) for a long time now. But recently I heard from a FreeBSD expert that I shouldn't have swap partition for my server, and having swap partition could make my server unstable. this was so strange for me, and I searched a lot but couldn't find a reason for this claim.


so my question is simple:
- could having a "swap" partition, be a bad thing for my FreeBSD server? and if so, why and in what conditions?


Cheers!



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