Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:52:09 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Joe Auty <joe@netmusician.org> Cc: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: core dump with dump command SOLVED Message-ID: <20060216145209.GA34657@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <D22C96E6-2B6F-40D6-BB93-6D80C83C8F27@netmusician.org> References: <1CFD830B-2CAC-44A9-9120-6CF351FD3EB9@netmusician.org> <443bimav7o.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <039BD206-0592-4F99-BE9B-CB49310E5BDC@netmusician.org> <44oe19ftis.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <5681BB6E-A511-4790-A8D9-33FBCBA3B800@netmusician.org> <44d5hnqt2k.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <D22C96E6-2B6F-40D6-BB93-6D80C83C8F27@netmusician.org>
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On 2006-02-16 09:29, Joe Auty <joe@netmusician.org> wrote:
> Thanks everybody for their help.
>
> As it turns out, I guess dump was being starved for memory, as
> running it while booted into FreeBSD normally using -L to indicate a
> live filesystem worked just fine. I believe this is because there is
> an extra swap file available from a normal FreeBSD boot, as specified
> in my /etc/rc.conf. I'm not sure if my theory completely holds up,
> but there you have it.
>
> Thanks again! I'm up and running...
That's very likely. I usually start single user mode with something
like the following:
# adjkerntz -i
# swapon -a
# fsck -p
# mount -u /
# mount -va
Having a swap partition enabled definitely helps to avoid ending up
without any free memory ;)
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