Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:00:09 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: What happens in this case? Message-ID: <24122.929649609@monkeys.com>
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What will actually happen if I have a 140MB swap partition setup as my dump device, but I have 320MB of physical memory, and then a panic occurs? Will the kernel see that it only has 140MB of disk to work with and then just write that much and then give up? Or will it refuse to write anything? Or (worse) will it just keep on writing stuff even past the end of the partition in question (thus overwriting the data in OTHER partitions)? And anyway, why the heck does the dumpdev have to big as big as physical memory? I mean hay! What if I have 320MB physical, but only 100MB of that is actually allocated or in use at the moment of the panic? Then I should only need a 100MB swap partition to hold the panic dump, right? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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