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Date:      Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:37:53 +0100
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: manually dumping core ...
Message-ID:  <200612281037.59570.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <62D1ED5C92D205A96979CD3F@ganymede.hub.org>
References:  <62D1ED5C92D205A96979CD3F@ganymede.hub.org>

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On Thursday 28 December 2006 09:49, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> How?  I can break to DDB no problem, but 'panic' just gives me a
> backtrace and then the ddb> prompt again ... reset didn't dump core,
> just rebooted ... :(

You might have to type 'panic' twice these days.  Alternatively, 'call=20
doadump' usually did the trick for me.

> Had an 'out of swap' error tonight, and would have liked to have been
> able to run a ps after the reboot to see if I could identify an 'out of
> control' process using up all the RAM (6G of RAM, 8G of swap) :(

DDB has a ps of it's own - I'm not sure how helpful it is for your=20
specific problem, though.

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