Jan Stary wrote:
Hi all,
last night, I installed 4.1 on the new ALIX.1C:
http://www.pcengines.ch/alix1c.htm (see dmesg at bottom).
The intended use of the box is a home router/firewall/NAT/DNS/DHCP
for my home "network" of about four computers (heterogeneous).
Everything works fine (as usual with OpenBSD), but
there are a few fine points I need some advice with.
Firstly, swap (i don't really mind reinstalling). Install guide says
On the root disk, the two partitions 'a' and 'b' must be
created. The installation process will not proceed until these
two partitions are available. 'a' will be used for the root
filesystem (/) and 'b' will be used as swap space.
It also says
The 'b' partition of your first drive automatically becomes your
system swap partition -- we recommend a minimum of 32MB but if
you have disk to spare make it at least 64MB. If you have lots
of disk space to spare, make this 256MB, or even 512MB. On the
other hand, if you are using a flash device for disk, you
probably want no swap partition at all. Many people follow an
old rule of thumb that your swap partition should be twice the
size of your main system RAM. This rule is nonsense.
The machine has 256M of RAM, and the storage is a 2G CF card (seen as
wd0). The machine is mostly idle (basically just routes). How much swap
do you think I should set for such operation? For regular operation,
I don't think I need a swap partition at all (how would I do that?
A 'b' partition of zero size, as it has to exist?), but to be able
to save possible core dumps, I am thinking of 300M swap and 300M /var
(to hold /var/crash). Is this reasonable?
................... SNIP
Is anyone using solid state drives yet?
