Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 15:30:06 -0600 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: swap space Message-ID: <C843BAAF-72B8-465A-857A-5D16CDA0159B@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <20050503212059.GA23694@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <000601c5500e$85b4f3c0$0a01a8c0@ops.cenergynetworks.com> <20050503204542.GB10776@xor.obsecurity.org> <D1E87824-3EDF-4E57-AF92-C1BB6ED668F2@shire.net> <20050503210743.GA11371@xor.obsecurity.org> <2491CCFD-B6DD-4A29-8023-9E46891DC7A2@shire.net> <20050503212059.GA23694@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On May 3, 2005, at 3:20 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:15:54PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net > LLC wrote: > >> Thanks! >> >> Well, on my production system, I am not dumping any kernels. Once It >> crashes, I reboot it and go back into production. Anything dumped >> would get wiped out. Luckily I am pretty conservative and only move >> to new versions of the OS when they have been released a while and so >> my machines have not had panics in years. >> > > It's up to you, of course, but it's been my experience that you might > regret the small expenditure of a few gigabytes one day when you do > run into a panic you need help to solve... > Of course, now that I have mentioned it, my luck will change and something bad will happen. I am not running cheap large IDE disks, but expensive fast high performance U320 disks on RAID controllers and so the extra GB does cost something. If I get a repeating panic, I can boot off a recovery disk and add in extra swap I guess. Thanks I always learn a lot here (I just wish someone could help me with the mail submission question I posted) Chad
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