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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:33:57 +0200 (IST)
From:      Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.Technion.AC.IL>
To:        Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: spontaneous reboots FreeBSD 3.x and 4.0-stable
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.1000321103041.12002A-100000@csd>
In-Reply-To: <20000321032955.U15100@reptiles.org>

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On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Jim Mercer wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:14:47AM +0200, Nadav Eiron wrote:
> > I didn't add kernel debugger, just kernel dumps. All the time it takes on
> > a reboot is the time your disks take to copy RAM to swapspace. Even with
> > your RAM size it should be less than a minute. 
> 
> so, how does one do this?
> 
> /etc/rc.conf: 
> dumpdev="/dev/da0s2b"  # this is the swap partition
> 
> yes?

Yes. You should also have your kernel compiled with debugging information
(and then installed stripped), so that you can make sense out of the dump
if you get one. See:
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kerneldebug.html

> 
> > The kernel is unchanged, so there's nothing that could really fix the
> > problem. It did go away though (at least for now) :-)
> 
> well, fingers crossed, i'll give it a whirl.

Good luck (though I doubt it'll change anything).

> 
> -- 
> [ Jim Mercer                 jim@reptiles.org              +1 416 506-0654 ]
> [          Reptilian Research -- Longer Life through Colder Blood          ]
> [  Don't be fooled by cheap Finnish imitations; BSD is the One True Code.  ]
> 
Nadav



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