Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 11:32:53 -0400 From: Keith Stevenson <k.stevenson@louisville.edu> To: "John C. Place" <jcplace@ibm.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel panic from quota? Message-ID: <19981024113253.B3102@homer.louisville.edu> In-Reply-To: <19981024103119.16296@ka3tis.com>; from John C. Place on Sat, Oct 24, 1998 at 10:31:19AM -0400 References: <19981024033231.A6200@homer.louisville.edu> <19981024103119.16296@ka3tis.com>
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It's my understanding that when the kernel drops core, it leaves behind an image of your _entire_ VM space. Since this particular box has 512MB of RAM in it, a 512MB core file seems reasonable to me. (I _like_ having half gig of RAM!) Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville k.stevenson@louisville.edu PGP key fingerprint = 4B 29 A8 95 A8 82 EA A2 29 CE 68 DE FC EE B6 A0 On Sat, Oct 24, 1998 at 10:31:19AM -0400, John C. Place wrote: > On Sat, Oct 24, 1998 at 03:32:31AM -0400, Keith Stevenson wrote: > > If anyone is interested in doing some post-mortem work, I can make the core > > file available via FTP. (It's ~512 MB, so I'm not going to email it to anyone) > > > Just a comment, if you reduced your memory size to the kernel (MEMSIZE) and > made another kernel wouldent that decrease the size but still give the needed > info? Just thinking outloud here, 512MB sounds big and I seen core files > before but NOT from a panic (thankfully so) or are they always that big? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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