> Hi all,
>
> last night, I installed 4.1 on the new ALIX.1C:
>
http://www.pcengines.ch/alix1c.htm (see dmesg at bottom).
> The intended use of the box is a home router/firewall/NAT/DNS/DHCP
> for my home "network" of about four computers (heterogeneous).
>
> Everything works fine (as usual with OpenBSD), but
> there are a few fine points I need some advice with.
>
> Firstly, swap (i don't really mind reinstalling). Install guide says
>
> On the root disk, the two partitions 'a' and 'b' must be
> created. The installation process will not proceed until these
> two partitions are available. 'a' will be used for the root
> filesystem (/) and 'b' will be used as swap space.
>
> It also says
>
> The 'b' partition of your first drive automatically becomes your
> system swap partition -- we recommend a minimum of 32MB but if
> you have disk to spare make it at least 64MB. If you have lots
> of disk space to spare, make this 256MB, or even 512MB. On the
> other hand, if you are using a flash device for disk, you
> probably want no swap partition at all. Many people follow an
> old rule of thumb that your swap partition should be twice the
> size of your main system RAM. This rule is nonsense.
>
> The machine has 256M of RAM, and the storage is a 2G CF card (seen as
> wd0). The machine is mostly idle (basically just routes). How much swap
> do you think I should set for such operation? For regular operation,
> I don't think I need a swap partition at all (how would I do that?
> A 'b' partition of zero size, as it has to exist?), but to be able
> to save possible core dumps, I am thinking of 300M swap and 300M /var
> (to hold /var/crash). Is this reasonable?
>
