From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 1 10:28:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2415F37B401 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:28:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA40859; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 12:30:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 12:30:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: "Eugene L. Vorokov" Cc: Mohana Krishna Penumetcha , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crash dump output In-Reply-To: <200108010741.f717fXs06699@bugz.infotecs.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 no, as long as your swap device is big enough to hold all of RAM it will work.. you are supposed to use your normal swap device. it reads it off and saves it elsewhere as teh first thing it does after booting, before you've had a chance to start swapping.. On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Eugene L. Vorokov wrote: > > > Maybe it's offtopic a bit, but can you please give exact instructions of how > > > to compile debug kernel ? My machine crashes sometimes too, I tried to compile > > > debug kernel, but it seemed not so easy and I gave up due to lack of time. Or > > > is there any URL with a good explanation ? > > > > you just call config with '-g' option. and compile the kernel in normal > > way. The freebsd handbook discusses this in more detail. > > Hmm. It seems like I need spare swap device for crashdump ? What can I do > if I have no room on disk for this ? Can normal swap device be used, and > if yes, how to save core on panic ? I think swap device contents will be > lost on the next reboot ... > > Regards, > Eugene > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message