From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Feb 9 02:29:50 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63962F1B59C for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2018 02:29:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kremels@kreme.com) Received: from mail.covisp.net (www.covisp.net [65.121.55.45]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 136526BDC9 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2018 02:29:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kremels@kreme.com) From: "@lbutlr" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Swap on SSD Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 19:29:36 -0700 References: <396EC97D-AF5C-4D37-9172-7212B3B0BDDB@kreme.com> <20180208075746.917d9319074bd831af69eacd@sohara.org> To: Freebsd Questions In-Reply-To: <20180208075746.917d9319074bd831af69eacd@sohara.org> Message-Id: <99D367C9-ADF4-41EB-8D4F-5D5F3B0C7ABF@kreme.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.6.10) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 02:29:50 -0000 On 2018-02-08 (00:57 MST), Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 00:38:02 -0700 > LuKreme wrote: > >> On Feb 7, 2018, at 08:18, Frank Leonhardt 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 Swap areas have been replaced by page areas on disk, but the name stuck.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