Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:08:19 +0100 From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> To: "Lucky Green" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0 without swap Message-ID: <20030111110819.1be840f1.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <00b101c2b958$007fc7b0$6601a8c0@VAIO650> References: <00b101c2b958$007fc7b0$6601a8c0@VAIO650>
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On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 01:58:31 -0800
"Lucky Green" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> wrote:
Hi,
> 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?
Having no swap will prevent you from getting crashdumps in case of
panic which, if you run 5.0, is not that unusual. Besides these days
harddrives cost $1/GB, so why not setup the swap partition anyway?
Cheers,
--
Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net
GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt
EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk
Of course it runs NetBSD!
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