On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 17:13:28 -0800 (PST) Eugen Udma <eugenu2 at yahoo.com> wrote: > I want to install FreeBSD on a laptop with 4 GB of RAM and a > hard disk of 100 GB. Should I waste 8 GB for a swap partition, > as it is recommended in the handbook? Probably not. The twice the ram rule is for people who may need to debug kernel panics.