Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 19:29:36 -0700 From: "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com> To: Freebsd Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Swap on SSD Message-ID: <99D367C9-ADF4-41EB-8D4F-5D5F3B0C7ABF@kreme.com> In-Reply-To: <20180208075746.917d9319074bd831af69eacd@sohara.org> References: <alpine.OSX.2.21.1802051507540.42615@ary.qy> <de600d709ef24c7b65f22963d72040e6@roundcube.fjl.org.uk> <396EC97D-AF5C-4D37-9172-7212B3B0BDDB@kreme.com> <20180208075746.917d9319074bd831af69eacd@sohara.org>
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On 2018-02-08 (00:57 MST), Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 00:38:02 -0700 > LuKreme <kremels@kreme.com> wrote: > >> On Feb 7, 2018, at 08:18, Frank Leonhardt <frank2@fjl.co.uk> wrote: >>> Swap areas have been replaced by page areas on disk, but the name stuck. >> >> Should the installer then be creating a dedicated swap partition? It >> seems not. > > Yes of course it should, it's the place where pages that aren't > backed by storage can be written to when needed. That seems easily solved (just as well) by a swapfile. -- They were the observers of the operation of the universe, its clerks, its auditors. They saw to it that things spun and rocks fell. And they believed that for a thing to exist it had to have a position in time and space. Humanity had arrived as a nasty shock. Humanity practically was things that didn't have a position in time and space, such as imagination, pity, hope, history and belief. Take those away and all you had was an ape that fell out of trees a lot. --The Thief of Time
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