Swap File

ghkrauss · Jan 21, 2018, 2:58 PM

Fellow Members:

What is the command to turn off the swap file in Pfsense 2.4.2 as I am installing a SSD.

Thanks for any assistance!

Best Regards

Guest · Jan 21, 2018, 3:32 PM

Don't bother with it, just leave it as-is :-)

ghkrauss · Jan 21, 2018, 4:48 PM

Thanks John. I will take your advice. Installing a Samsung 850 Pro.

Best Regards,

Howard

Guest · Jan 21, 2018, 10:22 PM

That one works well enough not to get any trouble from the swap :) Plus, as long as you have enough RAM and a reasonably static load, swap won't do much anyway.

ghkrauss · Jan 22, 2018, 12:48 AM

John:

I have 16Gb as there are a number of packages running and a large wireless AP group.

Howard

Guest · Jan 22, 2018, 1:00 AM

Should be totally fine. If you want to be 100% sure, run smartctl in 6-8 months and post the results here.

stephenw10 · Jan 23, 2018, 6:18 PM

Just don't create a swap slice when you install it to be sure. The default settings will create a swap slice twice the RAM size but you can use the manual settings and just not make one.

Steve

micropone · Jan 23, 2018, 6:45 PM

I have 8gb ram swap file out of space. only using 2gb

my box is down..

i7 6700

freedbsd 11.1 is having issues im using snapshots last night build..

stephenw10 · Jan 23, 2018, 7:46 PM

Bad HD maybe? That can report as out of space.

Steve

Guest · Jan 23, 2018, 8:13 PM

If you are using snapshots, report in the snapshots forum.