Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 22:27:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>, FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: swap & huge mem systems Message-ID: <200207090527.g695R23C049724@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20020708212522.N945-100000@april.chuckr.org> <20020709015454.GA6323@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <3D2A4DDB.75F8561B@mindspring.com> <20020709050048.GA27599@HAL9000.wox.org>
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:Thus spake Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>:
:> Erik Trulsson wrote:
:> > Minimal swap if you want to be able to catch core dumps: Physical RAM
:> > size + 64K
:
:I've caught many core dumps with swap == RAM. Am I just getting
:lucky, or am I losing 64K of the image?
:
:> Crash dumps good.
:
:I beg to differ. ;-)
You only need as much as physical ram. e.g. 1G of ram, 1G on the
dump device (which can be the swap partition).
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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