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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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