Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:15:05 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Ian FREISLICH <ianf@clue.co.za> Cc: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RC2 Available Message-ID: <47B38809.5000500@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <E1JPCWL-0000pN-IF@clue.co.za> References: <E1JPCWL-0000pN-IF@clue.co.za>
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Ian FREISLICH wrote: > Hi > > I just installed and only now noticed this oddity (to me at least). > Maybe it's been explained before, but I can't quite remember. > > I selected auto defaults for the slice editor. The system I installed > (amd64) on has 16GB of RAM yet it only assigned 4GB for swap. I > remember reading that on amd64 minidumps could corrupt neighbouring > filesystems, so a full dump could be up to 16GB. There won't be > enough space for a full dump. That said, 16GB is quite a *lot* to > swap out and I'm not sure how the system would perform under that > scenario. I havent seen reports of problems with minidump on amd64. I use it myself. Kris
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