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Date:      24 Mar 2003 18:02:45 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: crashdumping on massive amounts of RAM
Message-ID:  <447kao5pwq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030324174332.GB831@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx>
References:  <20030324174332.GB831@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx>

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The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx> writes:

> Now the problem I have is I'd like to debug the panic()s I'm seeing
> now and then on this box, since I'm running 5.0. :) But it seems I
> need at least as much swap as I need RAM to do this.

You could always tell the kernel it has a lot less RAM, and get a dump
that way.  It might affect the symptoms, of course, but it might not.

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