From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 4 23:14:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D6D537B561 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 23:14:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id PAA36282; Fri, 5 May 2000 15:45:15 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 15:45:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "G.B.Naidu" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do I need more swap space... Message-ID: <20000505154515.O32650@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 5 May 2000 at 11:50:55 +0530, G.B.Naidu wrote: > > I have a FreeBSD box running 3.1 release. RAM size is: 32 MB and I have a > swap space of 69 MB. You only need as much swap as memory to write the dump, but it all has to be contiguous: if you had three swap partitions of 23 MB each, you wouldn't be able to dump. > Recently my system panicked and when it is rebooting, savecore says: > not enough space on the device. What does this mean? Does it mean > that 69 MB swap space is not sufficient? Or is it that /var/crash > directory doesnt have much space? It means that you don't have enough space on /var/crash. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message