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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:10:01 +0100
From: Slawek Zak <zaks@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>
To: Marcin Dalecki <mdcki@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: sysinstall + swap partition requirement
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On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:04:08PM +0100, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> During a fresh install of the DP2 I noticed that sysinstall didn't
> allow me to configure the system *without* any swap paritions.
> 
> Well this doesn't make sense, since:
> 
> 1. The system has perfectly fine 192MB of RAM, thus the installation
> should scceed anyway...
> 
> 2. I intendid to use SWAP-over-vnode to work around GCC's "template 
> compilation
> eats RAM" struggle.
> 
> I guess this "safety check" is a leftover from the days where one had 
> typically
> 16MB of RAM + 100MB of swap on a system...

I don't know if anything has changed in 5.x, but VM in BSDs in general
doesn't work too well without swap. Swap is useful for system crash
gathering anyway.

/S

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