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From: John Oram <norami@unlimited.net>
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To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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Subject: Re: Sans-Swap VM Subsystem Questions
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Warner said: "we put as much RAM into these boxes as we can to avoid the
low memory situations that can lead to problems."

How much RAM are you talking about - what are the minimum and
recommended level based on your experiences...

John Oram

Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> In message <20010211185852.F19845@peorth.iteration.net> "Michael C . Wu" writes:
> : The general idea is that many parts of FreeBSD sometimes count on
> : having swap and such.  Can you use some part of the flash disk for
> : swap?
> : i.e. if (no_swap == TRUE) {bad_things_happen(); return ENOTVERYGOOD;}
> 
> NO YOU CANNOT SWAP TO FLASH.  It will wear the part out too quickly if
> you try.
> 
> We've been running off of FLASH with no swap for the better part of a
> year and nothing bad has happened to us.  We make sure, however, that
> we put as much RAM into these boxes as we can to avoid the low memory
> situations that can lead to problems.
> 
> Warner
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