Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:15:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> 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: <200207091615.g69GFPhJ052452@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> <20020709084604.GA7920@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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:> :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.
:
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:<Insert your favourite quote here.>
:Erik Trulsson
:ertr1013@student.uu.se
The manual page is wrong. I'll fix it.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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