Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:48:29 -0500 From: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> To: 'Kris Kennaway' <kris@obsecurity.org>, Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> Cc: "'current@freebsd.org'" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: savecore: Value too large to be stored in data type Message-ID: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337045D83BB@mail.sandvine.com>
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From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:kris@obsecurity.org] > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 04:41:12PM -0500, Don Bowman wrote: > > has anyone seen this problem on a panic? > > > > i have 4GB of physical memory, running 5.2.1 RC. > > I had a panic occur, and it won't write the whole vmcore. > > > > 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. > > > > 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? > Hmmm, i hadn't considered that. Its not PAE. Is this important if its at least > phys mem size? It didn't give me any errors when i created it.
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