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Date:      Fri, 07 Sep 2001 00:21:20 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Good practice for /tmp
Message-ID:  <999814880.3b97f6e003967@webmail.neomedia.it>
In-Reply-To: <15255.61590.455896.440737@guru.mired.org>
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[ Sorry for the previous empty message. I hit the wrong key. AAARGH! ]

Scrive Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>:

> > Hmm, the dual of a dual is isomorphic to the original space. :-)
> 
> But the dual of a graph may not be a graph.
 



We just thought of different objects.




> While it's certainly correct that the system runs better with swap - a
> minimum of 256MB is recommended by tuning(7) - that doesn't mean it
> absolutely has to have any swap at all.




IIRC, some people complained about FreeBSD always using swap. I can now assume 
there is no such "problem".



 
 
> If you believe pstat -s, I just booted and ran a system sans swap by
> the simple expedient bring it up single user, removing the swap
> partition from /etc/fstab, and then going multi-user. No problems -
> but I was careful not to do anything that would use lots of memory.




Thanks, Mike, this is exactly what I was looking for.
-- Salvo

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