From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 17 9:54:36 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 E037537B40B; Fri, 17 May 2002 09:54:31 -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 MAA18876; Fri, 17 May 2002 12:54:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g4HGs1T47398; Fri, 17 May 2002 12:54:01 -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: <15589.13737.302689.294546@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 12:54:01 -0400 (EDT) To: "Marc G. Fournier" Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ? In-Reply-To: <20020517134254.W41731-100000@mail1.hub.org> References: <15589.12829.973741.896717@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20020517134254.W41731-100000@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 Marc G. Fournier writes: > > Well, downloaded the files (a .tar.gz would be nice? *grin*) and the > client built perfectly, and kldload worked fine ... is there some way > someone can suggest of 'simulating a crash'? Some way to test to make > sure that it is working as expected? I have a 4.6-PRE machine on my desk > that I'd like to test with before I try it on "the real thing", if at all > possible? break into ddb & do: ddb > call dumpsys() Unless you're running a savecore which supports partial dumps, you need to disable partial dumps (sysctl net.net_dump.partial=0). And remember, you'll be spewing the contents of your ram (possibly passwords, etc) across the network in clear text. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message