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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
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Subject: Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ?
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Oh, I like the netdump one ... I have a machine sitting right beside this
one that I can use to dump to ... has anyone thought to include this as a
'standard' sort of thing with FreeBSD?  So that it keeps up with the
current code?


On Fri, 17 May 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

>
>
> 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 Both may be a little out of date & require some work to get working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
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