From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 11 13: 7: 2 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 8188537B401 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 13:07:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (12-233-57-224.client.attbi.com [12.233.57.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E786643F13 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 13:06:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h0BL6qB4000483; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 13:06:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: (from das@localhost) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id h0BL6qIB000482; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 13:06:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 13:06:52 -0800 From: David Schultz To: Bruce Evans Cc: Lucky Green , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0 without swap Message-ID: <20030111210652.GA459@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Mail-Followup-To: Bruce Evans , Lucky Green , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030111101249.GB3961@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030112040519.E3724-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030112040519.E3724-100000@gamplex.bde.org> 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 Thus spake Bruce Evans : > 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.) Yes, I should have been more clear. I assumed the motivation for not having swap was a lack of disk space, not to avoid committing certain data to stable storgae. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message