Just getting into FreeBSD and reading through the Absolute FreeBSD book right now. Remembered that Michael states "The main use for swap on modern systems is to have a place to store
a memory dump should the system panic and crash."
I think this is reason enough to enable swap even if you do not plan on using swap for system memory. It's always nice to have a memory dump if the system crashes so you can check what the issue was and correct it. If you wouldn't want to fix those kinds of issues why would you be running FreeBSD anyway?
I think this is reason enough to enable swap even if you do not plan on using swap for system memory. It's always nice to have a memory dump if the system crashes so you can check what the issue was and correct it. If you wouldn't want to fix those kinds of issues why would you be running FreeBSD anyway?