From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 6 15:55:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.246.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FAF337B401 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:55:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lilith (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA23510 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 00:55:35 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <006f01c13727$11c8a960$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de> From: "Siegbert Baude" To: References: <999807502.3b97da0e9af9f@webmail.neomedia.it> <15255.61590.455896.440737@guru.mired.org> <999814880.3b97f6e003967@webmail.neomedia.it> Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 00:55:48 +0200 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 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 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