Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:18:03 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>, FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: swap & huge mem systems Message-ID: <20020709091803.GA8427@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20020709125835.Y75130-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <20020709015454.GA6323@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20020709125835.Y75130-100000@woozle.rinet.ru>
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On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 01:02:16PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > [snip] > ET> Minimal swap if you want to be able to catch core dumps: Physical RAM > ET> size + 64K > ET> > ET> Personally, in your situation I would probably configure enough swap to > ET> be able to catch a core dump and not much more, i.e. slightly more than > ET> 1G swap. > > BTW, is it safe to create _interleaved_ swap totally sized slightly above > the amount of physical RAM? I mean, is core writer interleve-aware, or > does it need the first swap partiton large enough? The coredumping code does not know about interleaved swap. It just uses a single swap partition which must be large enough. Read the dumpon(8) manpage for more information. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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