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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Alex Povolotsky <tarkhil@webmail.sub.ru>
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On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:04:14AM +0400, Alex Povolotsky wrote:
> Hello!
>=20
> I have on one of my boxes too little swap partition to dumpon on it. Actu=
ally, it is too little by several bytes
>=20
>  # swapinfo=20
> Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Type
> /dev/da0s1b       1048448      100  1048348     0%    Interleaved
> /dev/da1s1b       1048448        0  1048448     0%    Interleaved
> Total             2096896      100  2096796     0%
>=20
>=20
> real memory  =3D 1073741824 (1048576K bytes)
>=20
> but I still cannot dumpon.
>=20
> Moreover, I don't need any dumping besides kernel memory.
>=20
> Does there exist any solution to dump on two swap partition, or to dump o=
nly limited amount of memory, or to dump on both swap partitions? Or I have=
 to repartition my disk?

Limit the amount of RAM used by FreeBSD by using the MAXMEM kernel
option or the corresponding loader tunable.

Kris

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