From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 6 15:21:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0147537B401 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:21:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from httpd@localhost) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f86MLKt21804; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 00:21:20 +0200 (CEST) To: Mike Meyer Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp Message-ID: <999814880.3b97f6e003967@webmail.neomedia.it> Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 00:21:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: questions@freebsd.org References: <999807502.3b97da0e9af9f@webmail.neomedia.it> <15255.61590.455896.440737@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <15255.61590.455896.440737@guru.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.4-cvs X-WebMail-Company: Neomedia s.a.s. X-Originating-IP: 62.98.152.230 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ Sorry for the previous empty message. I hit the wrong key. AAARGH! ] Scrive Mike Meyer : > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message