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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com>
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On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 04:41:12PM -0500, Don Bowman wrote:
> has anyone seen this problem on a panic?
>=20
> i have 4GB of physical memory, running 5.2.1 RC.
> I had a panic occur, and it won't write the whole vmcore.
>=20
> 1985347584 is the size of the vmcore i get (not compressed).
> Its not useful as far as i can tell, gdb doesn't know where
> to begin.
>=20
> My swap partition is 8GB. The filesystem i'm saving the
> vmcore too is plenty big enough.

Can 8GB of swap even be addressed on i386?

Kris

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