From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 3 18:18:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0C9037B405 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 18:18:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59AC7BD21; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 18:18:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA22165; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 18:18:32 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fA42Gk357843; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 18:16:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: "Mark Hughes" Cc: Subject: Re: Swap space with 3GB RAM References: <008601c1642e$7138ddf0$0200a8c0@mark2> <012601c164b6$4bf46d60$0200a8c0@mark2> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 03 Nov 2001 18:16:44 -0800 In-Reply-To: <012601c164b6$4bf46d60$0200a8c0@mark2> Message-ID: Lines: 9 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 "Mark Hughes" writes: > Personally I'd agree that from a performance point of view we may be better > off without swap at all - however the reason for having the swap even when > you don't need it is, I think, so you can do some sort of memory dump to > the swap if you have problems. You'll want to read the dumpon(8) man page to enable the feature (which seems to require swap >= RAM size + 64 KB). And learn kernel debugging. :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message