From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 26 08:58:42 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50750BB0 for ; Sun, 26 May 2013 08:58:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bored_to_death85@yahoo.com) Received: from nm39-vm9.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm39-vm9.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [72.30.239.153]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDCAFF00 for ; Sun, 26 May 2013 08:58:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.139.212.153] by nm39.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 26 May 2013 08:58:32 -0000 Received: from [98.139.212.238] by tm10.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 26 May 2013 08:58:32 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1047.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 26 May 2013 08:58:32 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 601650.48137.bm@omp1047.mail.bf1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 97535 invoked by uid 60001); 26 May 2013 08:58:32 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1369558712; bh=Bsdr2ogScLHW8MejYjiHGe76AgRZIhv2e/Lshul7rr0=; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Rocket-MIMEInfo:X-Mailer:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=XhYMMBjHhMtHELycAOXpxv666teMs34npQmwgb53je2H2N5dAMVfpiUZvxeuyQHLQ6PsamCUGOTSjTS78HsDLscmeIVb1zRZr+xVaYvKWPSdHY+a4FLO1F0atOzf4AaPpTRnjUlnrzxK0n7nXn79nvlEaw4DcxQFO3wM1rqixOk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Rocket-MIMEInfo:X-Mailer:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=rMcRSiOuSRGLkiZrV786B6hC5mLAqyzXNTDerjM/eNkvC97ZKRCPVmyKz/B6UzM9Ad280m258r7kOpo0PtOsO9SUzrILzF4jWQYGSnoOgF2vUh17wsvarofep5GyOG0sXwYJlNW5396zvyGEwC2a/eQ1R6qn77v+IScqwT6tcb8=; X-YMail-OSG: RO2.FYwVM1km7SvMnzdWzsWZDxM33xv3lfQaW20ALf81SY. 0IAuEXpohQHXVGwnFFkNEfhvmSmThJwnZuNu7up.QxK9uPkdbHXBtoAoMX.v 0gHBp3gkhfpY3WQu1Zc1japTXih0E8nf6cDiZr3882QStL5AKYlpkQFO2l7a UsN8INmCcazdN6Dr0I9M9Ul3kjch2S3UatdL4vIm757jw_ZK.uDY1pwpFULD h4RbWqOM6jeN_NNtP4cp8umSx659fBzzW25jiwMuHwTRSxBAK92ypYz9Mub1 ArkUYPjkUHsZwVpyQ_nUYf22KX.dbuo2Ss__KoLciokXr2oPT0N2bHRjXH5G q9C.7DVBo3.ut.fG.Kt.4srGzfNSqUTULCQ3F33hCdfUnMQyK5uias_xv6c2 5K7n0oOzWJC1hI3pGber3gXVqOCQbkXtzDuBylRdoIKRfkU3m6t4Q21FJM9I tSF3kVhFbG.vX9YqtITYJt.icsrfBLYI6eZV7JX.DiZfSJxvH Received: from [94.183.246.198] by web165006.mail.bf1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 26 May 2013 01:58:32 PDT X-Rocket-MIMEInfo: 002.001, aGkgZXZlcnlvbmUsCgpJIGhhdmUgYSAyNC83IG5ldHdvcmsgc2VydmVyL2dhdGV3YXkgd2l0aCBGcmVlQlNELTguMiBvbiBhIFNTRCBkcml2ZS4gaXQncyBwYXJ0aXRpb25lZCBhcyBub3JtYWwgKC8gLCAvdG1wLCAvdmFyICwgL3VzciBhbmQgc3dhcCkgZm9yIGEgbG9uZyB0aW1lIG5vdy4gQnV0IHJlY2VudGx5IEkgaGVhcmQgZnJvbSBhIEZyZWVCU0QgZXhwZXJ0IHRoYXQgSSBzaG91bGRuJ3QgaGF2ZSBzd2FwIHBhcnRpdGlvbiBmb3IgbXkgc2VydmVyLCBhbmQgaGF2aW5nIHN3YXAgcGFydGl0aW9uIGNvdWwBMAEBAQE- X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.144.546 Message-ID: <1369558712.96152.YahooMailNeo@web165006.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 01:58:32 -0700 (PDT) From: "M. V." Subject: "swap" partition leads to instability? To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: "M. V." List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 08:58:42 -0000 hi everyone, I have a 24/7 network server/gateway with FreeBSD-8.2 on a SSD drive. it's partitioned as normal (/ , /tmp, /var , /usr and swap) for a long time now. But recently I heard from a FreeBSD expert that I shouldn't have swap partition for my server, and having swap partition could make my server unstable. this was so strange for me, and I searched a lot but couldn't find a reason for this claim. so my question is simple: - could having a "swap" partition, be a bad thing for my FreeBSD server? and if so, why and in what conditions? Cheers!