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Date:      Sun, 1 Sep 2002 16:29:06 -0300 (ADT)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Crash with KVM monitoring in place ...
Message-ID:  <20020901162738.X27764-100000@hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <200209011908.g81J8HbP014776@apollo.backplane.com>

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On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>
> :>     'trace'.  If over several crashes it dies in the same place
> :>     then we at least have an idea where to look.
> :>
> :>     How large is your swap space, or your largest free partition?
> :
> :My swap is only ~2gig, and my drive looks like:
>
>     Right... then do as I suggested in a previous email.  Reduce
>     the machine's memory to 2G via /boot/loader.conf:
>
>     hw.physmem="2048m"
>
>     Then reboot and turn on dumps to the swap device.  If you
>     can reproduce the crash with the machine downgraded to 2G
>     we should get a dump we can work with.

just as an appendum, after ~13hrs uptime, here is what top shows for the
system ...

last pid: 27376;  load averages: 35.22, 25.35, 17.27   up 0+13:12:49  14:27:28
1265 processes:778 running, 487 sleeping
CPU states: 50.4% user,  0.0% nice,  2.3% system,  0.2% interrupt, 47.1% idle
Mem: 2413M Active, 876M Inact, 405M Wired, 161M Cache, 199M Buf, 22M Free
Swap: 2048M Total, 8708K Used, 2039M Free



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