Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 12:09:18 GMT From: Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to choose the size of swap? Message-ID: <201012071209.oB7C9In9006642@higson.cam.lispworks.com> In-Reply-To: <20101206214223.GA6375@icarus.home.lan> (message from Jeremy Chadwick on Mon, 6 Dec 2010 13:42:23 -0800) References: <4CFBD7F9.3000307@ukr.net> <op.vm872qsr8527sy@pinky> <20101206214223.GA6375@icarus.home.lan>
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>>>>> On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 13:42:23 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick said: > > And don't forget that (by default) you'll need a /var filesystem that > has enough physical room to hold the dump. You can change this using > the "dumpdir" option in rc.conf(5) if your existing /var isn't large > enough. Just make sure to copy /var/crash to /wherever, and make sure > the file/dir permissions are correct + minfree file exists. Is that working from swap-based dumps now? Last time I looked, the boot sequence enables swap before the dump is copied, so it is lost. __Martin
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