From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 17 7:28: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2AA437B40B for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 07:28:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA14623; Fri, 17 May 2002 10:27:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g4HERSH47226; Fri, 17 May 2002 10:27:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15589.4944.12997.539449@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 10:27:28 -0400 (EDT) To: "Marc G. Fournier" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ? In-Reply-To: <20020516230835.Q6260-100000@mail1.hub.org> References: <20020516230835.Q6260-100000@mail1.hub.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid 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 There are 3 things you could do: a) Limit your memory size in the loader b) Use partial dumps c) Use network dumps if you have another machine to run the dump server on. Both the netdump & partial dump code can be found at: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~anderson/freebsd/ Both may be a little out of date & require some work to get working with a recent -stable, as they were developed in the days when 4.0 was -current. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message