From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 9 9:15:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EA1E37B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:15:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3396843E42 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:15:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.5/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g69GFWLA052461; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:15:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.5/8.12.4/Submit) id g69GFPhJ052452; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:15:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:15:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200207091615.g69GFPhJ052452@apollo.backplane.com> To: Erik Trulsson Cc: David Schultz , Terry Lambert , Chuck Robey , FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: swap & huge mem systems 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> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> :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. : :-- : :Erik Trulsson :ertr1013@student.uu.se The manual page is wrong. I'll fix it. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message