From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 11 9:12:36 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1883337B405 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 09:12:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1834E43F13 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 09:12:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from katana.zip.com.au (katana.zip.com.au [61.8.7.246]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA01921; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 04:12:20 +1100 Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 04:12:47 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: David Schultz Cc: Lucky Green , Subject: Re: 5.0 without swap In-Reply-To: <20030111101249.GB3961@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Message-ID: <20030112040519.E3724-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Lucky Green : > > 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