From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 24 15: 2:53 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1915837B401 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:02:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7138A43F3F for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:02:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51) with ESMTP id <20030324230250051003h7qke>; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 23:02:50 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.8/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2ON2omQ001206; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 18:02:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.8/8.12.6/Submit) id h2ON2jAv001203; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 18:02:45 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: The Anarcat Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: crashdumping on massive amounts of RAM References: <20030324174332.GB831@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 24 Mar 2003 18:02:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20030324174332.GB831@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx> Message-ID: <447kao5pwq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 8 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-32.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_GNUS_UA, X_AUTH_WARNING autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The Anarcat 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message