From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 7 12:24:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA26149 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 12:24:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA26144 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 12:24:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA14337; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 15:23:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970807152328.65342@crh.cl.msu.edu> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 15:23:28 -0400 From: Charles Henrich To: Doug White Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Swap Files References: <19970805163049.55827@crh.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.80 In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Thu, Aug 07, 1997 at 12:21:11PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1024/F7 FD C7 3A F5 6A 23 BF 76 C4 B8 C9 6E 41 A4 4F Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On the subject of Re: Swap Files, Doug White stated: > 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. For B) I meant literally a swap partition, not swap space. I.e. FreeBSD apparently doesnt handle just having a large swap FILE at all well. -Crh Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich