Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 00:55:48 +0200 From: "Siegbert Baude" <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp Message-ID: <006f01c13727$11c8a960$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de> References: <999807502.3b97da0e9af9f@webmail.neomedia.it> <15255.61590.455896.440737@guru.mired.org> <999814880.3b97f6e003967@webmail.neomedia.it>
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Hello, > > 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. For what it's worth: I ran a desktop system for several months without any swap, as I blamed my disk with the swap partition for some "error 11" during make world. I had commented out the mounting of the swap during the boot process, so I didn't go over single user. The system ran without problems with normal desktop applications (Netscape, Gimp, bunch of Terminals) even with the memory hog KDE2. Only during make world i got some "out of memory" (or were they "out of swap"?) messages, which didn't prevent the system from compiling and installing everything as normal. BTW, the problem disappeared after I went back from some beta BIOS (the whole development series isn't available anymore; seems it really was buggy) to the last final BIOS. This on an ASUS P2B with 128MB RAM, 2 IBM IDE disks and 1 Maxtor SCSI disk. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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