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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!super.zippo.com!zdc!szdc!szdc-e!news From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What is smallest swap file size possible? Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 00:35:43 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 18 Message-ID: <32A9022F.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> References: <E208FH.L68@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Rudi C. Wong wrote: > > I've read that the general rule for allocating swap space is 2 x RAM. > Is there any rule limiting the smallest possible swap file size? > Does the swap file size have to be at least equal to the amount of RAM? > > Finally, is it possible to install FreeBSD with no swap space. > The installation program insists on the allocation of swap space. > Any way around this? > > If a machine had 64Megs of RAM, will FreeBSD run fine with 0 swap? > The load is mostly light. > Even though it is a bona-fide deficiency, it would be very unwise to run with less than 1*RAM. John dyson@freebsd.org