From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 28 15:43:38 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EED110656EE for ; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:43:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB66D8FC08 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:43:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 13086 invoked from network); 28 Dec 2009 15:43:37 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 28 Dec 2009 15:43:37 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 49A8F5086C; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:43:35 -0500 (EST) From: Lowell Gilbert To: cronfy References: Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:43:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: (cronfy@gmail.com's message of "Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:31:00 +0300") Message-ID: <44iqbr5ck9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Max kernel dump size X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:43:38 -0000 cronfy writes: > How can I calculate max kernel dump size? I want to create my swap partition > as small as possible, just to fit kernel dump needs. I'm not sure you really can. You'll definitely have enough if you allow a bit more than you have memory, but these days that's going to be overkill most of the time. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/