From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 18 13:45:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ACF916A4CE for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:45:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.asn.net (mail.asn.net [66.235.231.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED87543D2D for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:45:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris-fbsdcur@asn.net) Received: (qmail 6344 invoked by uid 80); 18 Feb 2004 21:45:56 -0000 Received: from 68.106.19.246 (SquirrelMail authenticated user kgale) by mail.asn.net with HTTP; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:45:56 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <50862.68.106.19.246.1077140756.squirrel@mail.asn.net> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:45:56 -0700 (MST) From: "Kris Gale" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: Error using savecore: Value too large. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:45:57 -0000 I'm trying to save a crash dump using savecore, and I'm seeing this: Feb 19 05:31:05 chief2 savecore: reboot after panic: page fault savecore: unable to open bounds file, using 0 savecore: writing core to vmcore.0 savecore: write error on vmcore.0 file: Value too large to be stored in data type savecore: WARNING: vmcore may be incomplete Feb 19 05:32:17 chief2 savecore: write error on vmcore.0 file: Value too large to be stored in data type savecore: unsaved dumps found but not saved The vmcore.0 created is only 16M. The system has 4gb of RAM, and the dump device is about 40gb. Should I be concerned about this error message, and if so, how can I work around it? System is -CURRENT as of yesterday. Kris Gale