Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:46:04 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>, FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: swap & huge mem systems Message-ID: <20020709084604.GA7920@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <200207090527.g695R23C049724@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20020708212522.N945-100000@april.chuckr.org> <20020709015454.GA6323@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <3D2A4DDB.75F8561B@mindspring.com> <20020709050048.GA27599@HAL9000.wox.org> <200207090527.g695R23C049724@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 10:27:02PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> :Thus spake Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>:
> :> Erik Trulsson wrote:
> :> > Minimal swap if you want to be able to catch core dumps: Physical RAM
> :> > size + 64K
> :
> :I've caught many core dumps with swap == RAM. Am I just getting
> :lucky, or am I losing 64K of the image?
> :
> :> Crash dumps good.
> :
> :I beg to differ. ;-)
>
> You only need as much as physical ram. e.g. 1G of ram, 1G on the
> dump device (which can be the swap partition).
The man page for dumpon(8) says:
The size of the specified dump device must be at least 64 KB
greater than the size of physical memory.
So I guess either you or the manpage is wrong.
--
<Insert your favourite quote here.>
Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se
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