Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 16:26:47 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What happens in this case? Message-ID: <29704.929662007@monkeys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 18 Jun 1999 08:40:41 %2B0930. <19990618084040.G9893@freebie.lemis.com>
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In message <19990618084040.G9893@freebie.lemis.com>, you wrote: >On Thursday, 17 June 1999 at 13:00:09 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> 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? > >How is the dump routine going to know what's in memory? At the time >of the crash, you can't trust anything (not even the dump routine, but >we tend to gloss over that part). Yea. I guess I was just sorta vaguely hoping that the dump routine could also kinda gloss over the fact that you don't _really_) know which parts of memory are allocated at the moment. >> Then I should only need a 100MB swap partition to hold the panic >> dump, right? > >Which 100 MB would that be? The important part, of course. Don't be silly. :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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