> On Aug 4, 2014, at 02:55, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I’m curious what could have changed between 5.4 and 5.5 that would cause
this.  I run this system without a swap partition to prevent wear on the CF
card, but 5.4 had a 200+ day uptime with it, so that wasn’t a problem
before.  Perhaps 5.5 is a bit more memory intensive and needs the swap?
> >
>
> On a soekris 4501 that I use with -current swap is required to install most
packages. You don't need much, I have used a 16MB swap file which works fine
even with pretty big packages and allows me to turn it on only when needed.
>
> > Or maybe it’s time to just put this box to rest… or stay with 5.4?
> >
> > Is there anything else I could do to help troubleshoot?  Or is this not
worth the effort...
> >
> > Jordon
> >

Thanks for the reply.  I tried again with a small swapfile and it worked.

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