On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Lucky Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am about to set up a FreeBSD 5.0 machine without a swap partition. The > > server has 1GB of RAM. Are there any caveats that I need to consider > > during installation or configuration? > > If you're using sysinstall, it might insist that you have swap. > Then again, that may be fixed by now. Beyond that, you won't be > able to take kernel crash dumps, and you'll have to be careful > that you don't run out of RAM.
Kernel crash dumps may be made on almost any disk device. Swap devices just give a device that is safe to clobber with dumps. (I rarely use either a swap device or a dump device, but sometimes enable them independently as needed.) Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
