Graham Perrin

IIRC there's an old FreeBSD bug for part of this. Hint: silence as a default can make it more difficult to get feedback from testers …

For privacy and security: prefer encrypted swap. > … oldschool 2*RAM rule … Thanks, I was previously unaware of that old-school rule. `x2` is what I settled upon, through experimentation,...

Not revenge :-) but coincidentally it's no longer necessary – https://matrix.to/#/!EKNFbsWSwXpDOGLRex:matrix.org/$QvRs_gkC-1D67x1nQnfR22V-p0w6pUTDJ_QSqfOdpo8?via=matrix.org&via=fosdem.org&via=t2bot.io

Hamburgers aside, > … `x2` is what I settled upon, through experimentation, a couple of years ago, after (more than once) finding FreeBSD's default to be far too small. Thinking...

Thanks. Incidentally, (although I don't see any fit for this with the current design of helloSystem): [sysutils/swapexd](https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/swapexd/)

https://github.com/helloSystem/ISO/issues/109#issue-791447052 > … lock up in low-RAM situations, … If ever you want a kernel panic in an _out of_ memory situation, set `vm.panic_on_oom` to `1` or greater.

From > … > `/var/log/messages` should be listing exactly what was killed and when. It's probably on the console too. Example messages: [Out of memory | The FreeBSD Forums](https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/out-of-memory.69755/)

In context: http://freebsd.1045724.x6.nabble.com/The-out-of-swap-killer-makes-poor-choices-td6449386.html Do we need to distinguish between a swap file and a swap partition? No problems here with a GELI-encrypted swap partition. (I'll test with swap disabled …...

> the installer should set one up 👍

When might swap become a feature? It's a significant drawback. https://github.com/helloSystem/ISO/issues/109#issue-791447052 > … ZFS, one can probably also retroactively add a dedicated dataset for swap … Probably not a good...