Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:15:47 +0400 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> Cc: Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minidumps in -STABLE and "smaller than physical memory" Message-ID: <20060921131547.GB29308@rambler-co.ru> In-Reply-To: <1158833673.4894.5.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> References: <20060921113711.B70668@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <1158833673.4894.5.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:14:33AM +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 11:44 +0300, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: > > 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) > > Yes. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/dumpon/dumpon.c.diff?r1=1.22&r2=1.23 > needs to be MFC'd. > I sent an MFC request to re@. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFEpCDqRfpzJluFF4RAn5iAJ0XusL9/V8WyMoR1kK9ux23b5ip1wCfXVk7 WTvhPoWnibl4dQv6gmYIXn4= =Ntvp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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