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Date:      Fri, 5 May 2000 15:45:15 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "G.B.Naidu" <gbnaidu@sasi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Do I need more swap space...
Message-ID:  <20000505154515.O32650@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GHP.4.10.10005051150260.23210-100000@hpd14.sasi.com>
References:  <Pine.GHP.4.10.10005051150260.23210-100000@hpd14.sasi.com>

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On Friday,  5 May 2000 at 11:50:55 +0530, G.B.Naidu wrote:
>
> I have a FreeBSD box running 3.1 release. RAM size is: 32 MB and I have a
> swap space of 69 MB.

You only need as much swap as memory to write the dump, but it all has
to be contiguous: if you had three swap partitions of 23 MB each, you
wouldn't be able to dump.

> Recently my system panicked and when it is rebooting, savecore says:
> not enough space on the device. What does this mean? Does it mean
> that 69 MB swap space is not sufficient? Or is it that /var/crash
> directory doesnt have much space?

It means that you don't have enough space on /var/crash.

Greg
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