From owner-freebsd-hackers  Mon Jul  8 22:27: 9 2002
Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BBEE37B400
	for <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>; Mon,  8 Jul 2002 22:27:06 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE95A43E31
	for <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>; Mon,  8 Jul 2002 22:27:05 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com)
Received: from apollo.backplane.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.5/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g695R3LA049727;
	Mon, 8 Jul 2002 22:27:03 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com)
Received: (from dillon@localhost)
	by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.5/8.12.4/Submit) id g695R23C049724;
	Mon, 8 Jul 2002 22:27:02 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from dillon)
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 22:27:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Message-Id: <200207090527.g695R23C049724@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
References: <20020708212522.N945-100000@april.chuckr.org> <20020709015454.GA6323@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <3D2A4DDB.75F8561B@mindspring.com> <20020709050048.GA27599@HAL9000.wox.org>
Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-hackers.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-hackers>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-hackers>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG


: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>

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message