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Date:      Thu, 4 Mar 2004 15:24:46 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com>
Cc:        "'current@freebsd.org'" <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: savecore: Value too large to be stored in data type
Message-ID:  <20040304232446.GA89587@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337045D83B7@mail.sandvine.com>
References:  <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337045D83B7@mail.sandvine.com>

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On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 04:41:12PM -0500, Don Bowman wrote:
> has anyone seen this problem on a panic?
>=20
> i have 4GB of physical memory, running 5.2.1 RC.
> I had a panic occur, and it won't write the whole vmcore.
>=20
> 1985347584 is the size of the vmcore i get (not compressed).
> Its not useful as far as i can tell, gdb doesn't know where
> to begin.
>=20
> My swap partition is 8GB. The filesystem i'm saving the
> vmcore too is plenty big enough.

Can 8GB of swap even be addressed on i386?

Kris

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