On Sun, 26 May 2013 01:58:32 -0700 (PDT) "M. V." <bored_to_deat...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> hi everyone, > > I have a 24/7 network server/gateway with FreeBSD-8.2 on a SSD drive. it's > partitioned as normal (/ , /tmp, /var , /usr and swap) for a long time now. > But recently I heard from a FreeBSD expert that I shouldn't have swap > partition for my server, and having swap partition could make my server > unstable. this was so strange for me, and I searched a lot but couldn't find > a reason for this claim. > > > so my question is simple: > - could having a "swap" partition, be a bad thing for my FreeBSD server? and > if so, why and in what conditions? I never had a problem with swap partitions, but perhaps the FreeBSD expert may refer to one of this three issues I can think about problems with swap, none of them are unstability issues: a) Swap partitions may store info from previous boot, you can use swap encryption for that. b) When using swap files (mounting a swap in a file), at shutdown sometimes there's a race condition and swap is unmounted before it's empty. c) If your system needs to use swap, network apps may show/throw timeouts when swap i/o is heavy. Sometimes b) kicks me but it's my fault because i don't shutdown process properly. > > Cheers! L --- --- Eduardo Morras <emorr...@yahoo.es> _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
