From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 16 19:37:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from earth.hub.org (earth.hub.org [64.49.215.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE61237B403 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 19:37:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (earth.hub.org [64.49.215.11]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 364B11033BC for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 23:37:33 -0300 (ADT) Received: from earth.hub.org (earth.hub.org [64.49.215.11]) by earth.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF7AA103341 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 23:37:28 -0300 (ADT) Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 23:37:28 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ? Message-ID: <20020516230835.Q6260-100000@mail1.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Evening all ... I have a 4gig Dual CPU system that is giving me kernel panic's ... Doug White suggested getting a trace, but, alas, not figuring I'd ever need to do such, my swap looks like: jupiter# pstat -s Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/amrd0s1b 524160 169116 355044 32% Interleaved /dev/ramrd1s1b 2621312 168992 2452320 6% Interleaved Total 3145472 338108 2807364 11% So nothing large enough for a dumpdev ... I do have a file system that has 8gig free on it right now: /dev/amrd1s1a 66972328 54742133 8211856 87% /v1 But, reading through the 'dumpon' man page, it says not to use a device that has a file system on it ... The server itself is both remote, and production, which makes using DDB near impossible ... So, how do ppl go about doing such a dump in a case like this, or am I totally out of luck on this? Is there any way of using that 8gig for this? Thanks ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message