Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 07:40:43 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Using Swap partition for Core dump Message-ID: <16792.41931.433210.940918@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20041115110427.GA9768@alzatex.com> References: <20041115110427.GA9768@alzatex.com>
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Loren M. Lang writes: > Looking through the system startup scripts I discovered that the > system runs a program called savecore that save a core dump to a > file in /var/crash from a previous crash. The problem is that > this is run after swap has been turned on. True. However: in my experience this happens sufficiently early after swapon that if you're _using_ swap at this point you have other issues (e.g. not enough memory or badly configured programs). I have never had a problem with savecore reading the dump from the designated dump device. Robert Huff
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