Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:56:55 -0500 From: Joe Auty <joe@netmusician.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: core dump with dump command SOLVED Message-ID: <B13F3A93-1287-4BD9-84DF-F46B1A0FFFD4@netmusician.org> In-Reply-To: <20060216145209.GA34657@flame.pc> References: <1CFD830B-2CAC-44A9-9120-6CF351FD3EB9@netmusician.org> <443bimav7o.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <039BD206-0592-4F99-BE9B-CB49310E5BDC@netmusician.org> <44oe19ftis.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <5681BB6E-A511-4790-A8D9-33FBCBA3B800@netmusician.org> <44d5hnqt2k.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <D22C96E6-2B6F-40D6-BB93-6D80C83C8F27@netmusician.org> <20060216145209.GA34657@flame.pc>
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On Feb 16, 2006, at 9:52 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2006-02-16 09:29, Joe Auty <joe@netmusician.org> wrote: >> Thanks everybody for their help. >> >> As it turns out, I guess dump was being starved for memory, as >> running it while booted into FreeBSD normally using -L to indicate a >> live filesystem worked just fine. I believe this is because there is >> an extra swap file available from a normal FreeBSD boot, as specified >> in my /etc/rc.conf. I'm not sure if my theory completely holds up, >> but there you have it. >> >> Thanks again! I'm up and running... > > That's very likely. I usually start single user mode with something > like the following: > > # adjkerntz -i > # swapon -a > # fsck -p > # mount -u / > # mount -va > > Having a swap partition enabled definitely helps to avoid ending up > without any free memory ;) > I was doing swapon -a too, but perhaps this command does not enable swap directories that have been attached to /etc/rc.conf? ----------- Joe Auty NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians http://www.netmusician.org joe@netmusician.org
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