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Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 02:12:49 -0800
From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: 5.0 without swap
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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.

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