Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 11:16:00 +0200 (EET) From: Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua> To: Jeremy Bogan <jeremy@segpub.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_4 on flash disk and swap Message-ID: <20060303110936.R86586@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> In-Reply-To: <76FAD2DB-CD18-42D4-95C8-F016CFB17B00@segpub.com.au> References: <20060302181625.I3905@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <76FAD2DB-CD18-42D4-95C8-F016CFB17B00@segpub.com.au>
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Hello! On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Jeremy Bogan wrote: >> In other words, does RELENG_4 kernel work stable and robust w/o swap or >> should I provide a minimum-size swap device? Which configuration (1 or 2) >> will give more robustness in case of physical memory shortage? > > I've got 4.11 running on a Geode based setup with 128MB RAM and a 64MB flash > on chip, works a treat with no swap. I'm running some heavy tests on my machine (256Mb RAM, HDD, no swap, 4.11-RELEASE) such as "make buildwolrd". After successful completion of this procedure I issued "rm -rf /usr/obj/usr" and got the following (single) message from kernel: Mar 3 11:05:32 test3 /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed Does anybody know whether it's harmless? Sincerely, Dmitry -- Atlantis ISP, System Administrator e-mail: dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua nic-hdl: LYNX-RIPE
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