From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 8 19:30:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1002C37B401 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 19:30:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from magus.nostrum.com (magus.nostrum.com [208.21.192.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 491A943EBE for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 19:30:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pckizer@nostrum.com) Received: from magus.nostrum.com (pckizer@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by magus.nostrum.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gB93B5dk045592; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 21:11:05 -0600 (CST) Received: (from pckizer@localhost) by magus.nostrum.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id gB93B57S045590; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 21:11:05 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200212090311.gB93B57S045590@magus.nostrum.com> From: Philip Kizer To: Mark Nipper Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question about swap files and crash dumps In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:35:44 CST." <20021127193544.GA4399@ops.tamu.edu> Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 21:11:05 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Nipper 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