Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 16:09:06 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: "M. V." <bored_to_death85@yahoo.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: "swap" partition leads to instability? Message-ID: <20130526160906.4e379016@X220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <1369558712.96152.YahooMailNeo@web165006.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1369558712.96152.YahooMailNeo@web165006.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
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Hi, On Sun, 26 May 2013 01:58:32 -0700 (PDT) "M. V." <bored_to_death85@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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. > because it is a false claim. I never ever have had any system with working hard, that gave a problem because of the swap space. Erich
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