Swap partition for FreeBSD

[Avinash Sonawane]

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Avinash Sonawane <rootkea at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Eduardo Morras <emorrasg at yahoo.es> wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 May 2015 13:11:18 +0530
>> Avinash Sonawane <rootkea at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all!
>>>
>>> I was trying to build www/webkit-gtk3 (a dependency for x11/gnome3)
>>> then it abruptly exited with "Out of swap space error" so I created a
>>> separate 8GB partition to be used as freebsd-swap.
>>
>> Why don't use a regular file as swap?
>
> Because I read somewhere that swap partition is much more faster than
> swap file and given that I already have 4GB RAM and then too I was
> posed with "out of RAM/swap space" like error (which I never
> anticipated) I wanted a more and faster swap. So dedicated swap
> partition.
>
> --
> Avinash Sonawane (RootKea)
> PICT, Pune
> http://rootkea.wordpress.com

May be this will justify:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/2211

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Avinash Sonawane (RootKea)
PICT, Pune
http://rootkea.wordpress.com