From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Sep 15 17:46: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from koza.acecape.com (koza2.acecape.com [66.9.36.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 681B737B40A for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 17:46:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from networld (p64-69.acedsl.com [66.114.64.69]) by koza.acecape.com (8.10.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id f8G0k5f13918 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:46:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000701c13e49$4e746470$0200a8c0@networld> From: "Russell A. Khurshudian" To: Subject: Swap Partitions Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:48:30 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org May someone please explain to me the functions of the swap partition and why the systems requires it. Another thing, i've heard that it is a good idea to make your swap partition twice the amount of memory your system has; What is the relationship between the swap partition and your system's memory resources? Thank you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message