From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 7 12:21:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA25878 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 12:21:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts16-line10.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA25870 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 12:21:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA00530; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 12:21:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 12:21:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Charles Henrich cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Swap Files In-Reply-To: <19970805163049.55827@crh.cl.msu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Charles Henrich wrote: > On the subject of Re: Swap Files, Doug White stated: > > > Are you trying to make a vnswap space? Didn't you allocate a partition for > > swap? You should have during initial system setup. > > A) Yes, B) No. Does FreeBSD require a swap partition to operate? No, but if you run out of memory then the system will start randomly killing processes. This means keeping things under control in 256mb. This wouldn't be good if you get a bout of good Web traffic or similiar. > > See vnconfig(8) for details on how to set this up. Your performance is > > going to be horrible though; I would suggest repartitioning if this is a new > > system. > > Why should it be any worse than a swap partition? It's much slower since it has to fuddle with the filesystem vs. having an entire slice to format as it likes. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo