Re: [Pan-users] Pan rules/filters

[Per Hedeland]

On 2017-01-23 22:48, David Kelly wrote:
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> David Kelly N4HHE, address@hidden
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> Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
> On Jan 23, 2017, at 11:08 AM, Per Hedeland <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>> On 2017-01-23 15:35, Dave wrote:
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>>> 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.:-)
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> 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