swap partition

[Stari Karp]

On Thu, 2016-12-29 at 11:42 -0600, Brandon J.Wandersee wrote:
> Stari Karp writes:
> 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2016-12-29 at 16:29 +0000, John Levine wrote:
> > > 
> > > In article <1483012420.95172.9.camel at yandex.com> you write:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I like to increase swap partition ...
> > > Why?Most BSD systems hardly use swap space at all.There's plenty
> > > of paging but that's mostly from the files that back the memory.
> > > 
> > > R's,
> > > John
> > I am using Synth and I have 8 GB memory and swap partition was made
> > defaut 3.6 GB and when I built LibreOFFice and Firefox for example
> > together than going swap to 100%
> > (swap_pager: out of swap space
> > kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(5): failed)
> > and because that I think to increase swap partition.
> Building each of those ports individually or temporarily disabling
> the
> use of tmpfs with `synth configure` would make a whole lot more sense
> than creating a new or larger swap partition that you'll never use
> again.
> 
> Yes, Synth builds will fail if you try and build several large
> packages
> at once and run out of temporary space in RAM. The same thing happens
> with Poudriere. But once you've completely built a repository for the
> first time you're unlikely to run into that problem again, since the
> large ports that caused the failure in the first place will probably
> not
> be built simultaneously again.
> 

I agree because I do not have so many problems anymore :).

Thank you very much to everyone for the help.