On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 d.zanon@infinito.it wrote:

> On Friday 18 March 2005 20:09, Rob Newberry wrote:
>> 1) Does NetBSD REQUIRE a swap partition?
>
> I think so... when compiling anything, it will require swap space... I've
> experienced it... And a swap partition to my knowledge must be
> Apple_UNIX_SVR2 and not APPLE_UFS in the pdisk-label (or how should I call
> it...)

 	NetBSD only requires swap if there is insufficient RAM, or
 	as a place to write a kernel crashdump.

 	As disk space tends to be much cheaper than RAM its usually
 	a good tradeoff to add swap, and it allows the system to
 	handle a (hopefully) occasional over use of memory.

 	Bear in mind that each page of swap needs to use a small
 	amount of fixed ram to manage, so adding a very large
 	quantity of swap to a low ram machine can make things worse.

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