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Date:      Fri, 30 Aug 2013 10:11:03 -0700
From:      John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jean-S=E9bastien_P=E9dron?= <dumbbell@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Alexander <vsityz@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: i915kms.ko not loading
Message-ID:  <20130830171103.GB36239@funkthat.com>
In-Reply-To: <5220A334.3080205@FreeBSD.org>
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Jean-Sbastien Pdron wrote this message on Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 15:50 +0200:
> On 29.08.2013 19:51, Alexander wrote:
> > I have swapinfo on zfs partition
> 
> I always heard that swap on ZFS is asking for trouble, because ZFS loves
> to use memory. So when the system is using swap space, ZFS has more work
> and therefore wants more RAM, whici is unavailable.
> 
> Furthermore, I'm not sure if kernel core dumping on swap on ZFS is
> supported at all. The following discussion on the forum suggests it's
> not possible:
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=37958
> 
> Can you plug another driver and setup swap on it? A USB drive/key should
> be fine.

You don't need to use a swap device to dump to it... You can just set
up the USB drive as the dump device only...

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