Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 00:30:34 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd without swap? Message-ID: <20080520003034.495ca553@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <4831F1CD.5060408@wilderness.homeip.net> References: <4831F1CD.5060408@wilderness.homeip.net>
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On Mon, 19 May 2008 16:31:57 -0500 Drew Sanford <lauasanf@wilderness.homeip.net> wrote: > Hi, > I lost a hard drive in one of my machines here. Fortunately, the only > thing on it was /tmp and a random storage partition I used as a > dropoff point for backups before they get ftp'd to another machine. > And...my swap partition. So how dangerously am I living to run this > machine without any swap until I get my hands on a replacement drive? > Frankly, it doesn't eat into the swap much at all on regular basis. I've not tried it myself, but the question came-up before and no-one seemed to regard it as a problem, provided you don't actually need swap space. If you're concerned you can create a swap file with dd, and add swapfile="path-to-file" in rc.conf
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