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Subject: Re: What are the likely causes of reboots?
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At 09:33 AM 10/10/2005, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>--On Monday, October 10, 2005 09:57:29 -0600 "Chad Leigh -- 
>Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> wrote:
>>
>>Set it up to record the kernel crash dump when it crashes so you can  see
>>what it says...
>>
>><<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/> 
>>kerneldebug.html>
>I've got a bit of a problem.  I didn't configure this box, and swap 
>is only 250MB.  Physical memory is a gig.  Is there a workaround 
>that would allow me to write a core file to somewhere else?  (And 
>why is /var/crash the default if dumps can't be written to the file system?)

The dumps go into the swap area.  On the next boot they get copied 
into the crash dir.

-Glenn


>Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
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