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On 04/28/16 07:01, Michael Jung wrote:
> [...]
> If you really want to try and build it on that system and have some free
> disk
> space you could always add a file instead of a partition as extra swap.
> 
> Instuctions here:
> 
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/adding-swap-space.html
> 
> --mikej
> [...]

I must warn you that using "swapon <file>" (at least on FreeBSD 8 and
earlier) was a guaranteed recipe for a panic for me.  I've been afraid
to try it any more recently.                              -- George