On Oct 24 11:26:40, s...@spacehopper.org wrote:
> > > Does the swap partition sd0b actually exist,
> > > or are you by any chance running these machines swapless?
> >
> > Indeed, I am running without swap.
>
> Ah yes AFAIK that is not really supported.
Is that specific to arm*? Or some other platforms?
I have been using this Thinkpad T400 (amd64, 8GB ram) for years
without having a swap partition, running chrome and everything.
> > If there is enough RAM to not have to swap,
> > why would a missing swap get processes killed
> > (if that was actualy the root cause of course)?
>
> The answer probably lies deep in uvm, but it's easier to just configure
> at least a small swap partition, as the installer does.
I have, and I will.
Thanks to both!
Jan
