On 2017-01-23 22:48, David Kelly wrote: > > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net > ============================================================ > Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. > On Jan 23, 2017, at 11:08 AM, Per Hedeland <p...@hedeland.org> wrote: > >>> On 2017-01-23 15:35, Dave wrote: >>> >>> I'm not sure if there's a way to increase swap on this. FreeBSD, like >>> Linux and unlike Windows, uses a swap partition. 4GB was enough when >>> I layed out the hard disk. Now it isn't. I'm not sure if there's a way >>> around this without a full backup, reforemat, restore. >> >> FWIW, FreeBSD can swap to files too, sort-of (i.e. by treating the file >> as a device). See >> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/adding-swap-space.html >> I believe Linux can do it too... >> >> But this doesn't sound like a great fix for the problem.:-) > > FreeBSD is happy to utilize multiple swap files and devices. It's best to > distribute swap across mounted devices for best performance. There are ways > to resize existing partitions without backup/wipe/repartition, but not > without risk. The safest way is either a swapfile or add another device with > a proper swap partition/slice. > > Swapfile is not the way to configure a fresh install, but it gets the job > done. Don't let quest for perfection prevent you from using a good-enough > solution.
My point was just that increasing swap space (no matter how) is not a great fix for the problem that pan needs huge amounts of memory - paging is always painfully slow compared to not paging.:-) --Per _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
