From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 28 13:27:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22907 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 13:27:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from firewall.reed.wattle.id.au (darren2.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.53.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22897 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 13:26:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au) Received: (from root@localhost) by firewall.reed.wattle.id.au (8.9.1/8.8.7) id VAA24062 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 21:26:38 GMT Received: from avalon.reed.wattle.id.au(192.168.1.1) by firewall.reed.wattle.id.au via smap (V1.3) id sma024060; Mon Dec 28 21:26:11 1998 Received: from percival.reed.wattle.id.au. (percival.reed.wattle.id.au [192.168.1.5]) by avalon.reed.wattle.id.au (8.9.0.Beta3/8.9.0.Beta3) with SMTP id IAA14463 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 08:26:10 +1100 (EST) From: Darren Reed Message-Id: <199812282126.IAA14463@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> Subject: crash dumps. To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 08:26:09 +1100 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there some reason why an entire RAM image is dumped when it finally writes it out to swap space ? Well, close enough to, it always dumps 64M from my box wth 128M RAM in it. In comparison, when running Solaris-x86 on the same box, I might see a 20MB crash dump written (with the same amount of activity). Also, Solaris7 apparently writes crash dumps to swap/dump partitions in a compressed format now (something to think about adding to FreeBSD). Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message