From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 22 9:55: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26E6E14BC5 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:54:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA18600; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 10:11:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 10:11:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: jamie@exodus.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Catching the culprit (reboot problems) 3.3 In-Reply-To: <19990922094447.A15382@dilbert.exodus.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Jamie Rishaw wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 09:06:13AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Jamie Rishaw wrote: > > > > > /dev/da0s1f 762223 5482 695764 1% /var > > > real memory = 536870912 (524288K bytes) > > > avail memory = 519012352 (506848K bytes) > > > > > > swapinfo: > > > Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type > > > /dev/da0s1b 524288 0 524160 0% Interleaved > > > > > > i dumpon /dev/da0s1b'd. > > > > > > So, ya, should be enuff.? > > > > no, somewhere in the handbook (or somewhere) it explains that > > you need _a bit_ more swap than ram, why didn't you follow the > > rule of thumb? (swap = 2x mem?) > > > > I figured, OK, if I actually use so much ram that I use a gig > of ram+swap.. then there's something else going on :) Probably true, but you'll be unable to get a crashdump with your current configuration, the guidlines are there for a reason. Actually... :) you're in luck, why not throttle down MAXMEM in your kernel config to about half what is it now, then you'll be able to get that dump most likely. :) good luck, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message