Date: 03 Nov 2001 18:16:44 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: "Mark Hughes" <mark@dvdnews.co.uk> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Swap space with 3GB RAM Message-ID: <jf1yjfb7qr.yjf@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <012601c164b6$4bf46d60$0200a8c0@mark2> References: <008601c1642e$7138ddf0$0200a8c0@mark2> <critcrbjcz.tcr@localhost.localdomain> <012601c164b6$4bf46d60$0200a8c0@mark2>
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"Mark Hughes" <mark@dvdnews.co.uk> writes: > Personally I'd agree that from a performance point of view we may be better > off without swap at all - however the reason for having the swap even when > you don't need it is, I think, so you can do some sort of memory dump to > the swap if you have problems. You'll want to read the dumpon(8) man page to enable the feature (which seems to require swap >= RAM size + 64 KB). And learn kernel debugging. :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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