Re: [Pan-users] Pan rules/filters

[David Kelly]

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On Jan 23, 2017, at 11:08 AM, Per Hedeland <address@hidden> 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.