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Subject: Re: A New FreeBSD Server
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On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Mike Meyer wrote:

MM> The other constraint on swap is that if you want the system to save a
MM> core dump if it panics, you need a device to dump on that's 64Kb
MM> bigger than ram. That's one device, not all of swap.

This is not quite true, as there always are some unused memory regions, hence 
you need not add 64k to RAM size. At least, I had no trouble using swap == RAM 
for last 5 years or so...


Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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