Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:23:57 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: some questions about disk partitioning and filesystems and booting Message-ID: <20200213162357.71aaf1dbd0f2ccb0743b0cd7@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20200213155256.GD14144@bastion.zyxst.net> References: <20200213150229.GC14144@bastion.zyxst.net> <CAEJNuHxrVPfU_TB35AEXaq0QdM=p-v0rnuZWtmAgQdm_KRMNTw@mail.gmail.com> <20200213155256.GD14144@bastion.zyxst.net>
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On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 15:52:56 +0000 tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> wrote: > OK, but doesn't it need to be at least the size of RAM if for example a > panic happens? I thought the contents of RAM were written to swap. These days the default dump is a mini-dump with just the kernel memory so you only need enough swap to hold that, but if there's no swap (or I think if there's insufficient swap) then there won't be a crash dump. More details here: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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