Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 12:12:07 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: swap sizing Message-ID: <20050531024206.GK10912@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20050531113955.D91505@delplex.bde.org> References: <20050530090525.246b0c35.kgunders@teamcool.net> <20050531113955.D91505@delplex.bde.org>
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--/0P/MvzTfyTu5j9Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 31 May 2005 at 11:48:19 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2005, Ken Gunderson wrote: >> And of course that you need at least as much swap as ram if you >> want to get a full dump... > > Of course not. The dump can be written to any disk device that you > don't care about overwriting. Sure. And, apart from swap, what would that be? Why not use it for swap while you're not dumping to it? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --/0P/MvzTfyTu5j9Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCm87+IubykFB6QiMRArOYAJ91p5b1YIvwkRvLGDuWR9vTHldpYACfZrNQ eg+JlHs5rZcypp2XoQXCWh8= =iMyq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/0P/MvzTfyTu5j9Q--
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