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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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