Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 15:17:06 -0800 From: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: some questions about disk partitioning and filesystems and booting Message-ID: <65b3d4f9-a98f-1c07-1c9e-511b302eeef4@holgerdanske.com> In-Reply-To: <d3251644-7b0f-7b5e-7c97-f38b0db62304@heuristicsystems.com.au> References: <20200213150229.GC14144@bastion.zyxst.net> <091dd3af-7b99-267f-7d04-541b6d651926@holgerdanske.com> <d3251644-7b0f-7b5e-7c97-f38b0db62304@heuristicsystems.com.au>
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On 2020-02-14 22:50, Dewayne Geraghty wrote: > In regard to running without swap and crashing, you may have overlooked > setting: > vm.swap_enabled=0 > vm.nswapdev=0 > (taken from a system without swap that's been running for a few years) > > My use of swap, like you, is limited to wanting a mini kernel dump, and > using swap space for memory devices (mdconfig). Though I do have swap > on another disk when I really need all of memory to be dumped, which has > been about once in 10 years ;) Thanks for the pointer. I will keep that in mind if/when I want to run a FreeBSD system without swap. David
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