Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 04:12:47 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 5.0 without swap Message-ID: <20030112040519.E3724-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20030111101249.GB3961@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>: > > I am about to set up a FreeBSD 5.0 machine without a swap partition. The > > server has 1GB of RAM. Are there any caveats that I need to consider > > during installation or configuration? > > If you're using sysinstall, it might insist that you have swap. > Then again, that may be fixed by now. Beyond that, you won't be > able to take kernel crash dumps, and you'll have to be careful > that you don't run out of RAM. Kernel crash dumps may be made on almost any disk device. Swap devices just give a device that is safe to clobber with dumps. (I rarely use either a swap device or a dump device, but sometimes enable them independently as needed.) Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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