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From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
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Cc: Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Minidumps in -STABLE and "smaller than physical memory"
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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!
> >=20
> >    I've noticed (with the 2-day old RELENG_6) that I still can't config=
ure my
> > 256Mb swap partition as a dump device for i386 machine with 1Gb RAM des=
pite
> > having minidumps enabled:
> >=20
> > root@test2# sysctl debug.minidump
> > debug.minidump: 1
> > root@test2# dumpon -v /dev/ad0s3b
> > /dev/ad0s3b is smaller than physical memory
> >=20
> > Am I correctly understand that minidumps should lift the restriction
> >=20
> >  	sizeof(dumpdev) >=3D sizeof(RAM)
>=20
> Yes.
>=20
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/dumpon/dumpon.c.diff?r1=3D=
1.22&r2=3D1.23
> needs to be MFC'd.
>=20
I sent an MFC request to re@.


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

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