Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 21:11:05 -0600 From: Philip Kizer <pckizer@nostrum.com> To: Mark Nipper <nipsy@tamu.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question about swap files and crash dumps Message-ID: <200212090311.gB93B57S045590@magus.nostrum.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:35:44 CST." <20021127193544.GA4399@ops.tamu.edu>
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Mark Nipper <nipsy@tamu.edu> wrote: >I have 768MB of physical RAM and only 512MB of swap. Don't ask... :) Yuck, indeed. >The question is, if I add a swap file using the vnode driver, will the >kernel know to make use of the space or does the crash dump handler only >use dedicated swap partitions? Good question on dumping to a vn device, but I doubt it would work, dumpon(8) sets kern.dumpdev with "the device number of the designated special_file". Looks like a physical device is the only option for that. Since I'm just cathing up and your question was 1.5 weeks ago, had any luck since then otherwise? -p To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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