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From: Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua>
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Subject: Minidumps in -STABLE and "smaller than physical memory"
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Hello!

   I've noticed (with the 2-day old RELENG_6) that I still can't configure my
256Mb swap partition as a dump device for i386 machine with 1Gb RAM despite
having minidumps enabled:

root@test2# sysctl debug.minidump
debug.minidump: 1
root@test2# dumpon -v /dev/ad0s3b
/dev/ad0s3b is smaller than physical memory

Am I correctly understand that minidumps should lift the restriction

 	sizeof(dumpdev) >= sizeof(RAM)

?

Sincerely, Dmitry
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Atlantis ISP, System Administrator
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