From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 1 12:35:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8644937B400 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 12:35:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C2ED43E4A for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 12:35:16 -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 g81JZFPQ014947; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 12:35:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.5/8.12.4/Submit) id g81JZFLq014946; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 12:35:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 12:35:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200209011935.g81JZFLq014946@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crash with KVM monitoring in place ... References: <20020901162024.J27764-100000@hub.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: : :> :> :> 'trace'. If over several crashes it dies in the same place :> :> then we at least have an idea where to look. :> :> :> :> How large is your swap space, or your largest free partition? :> : :> :My swap is only ~2gig, and my drive looks like: :> :> Right... then do as I suggested in a previous email. Reduce :> the machine's memory to 2G via /boot/loader.conf: :> :> hw.physmem="2048m" :> :> Then reboot and turn on dumps to the swap device. If you :> can reproduce the crash with the machine downgraded to 2G :> we should get a dump we can work with. : :Okay, just to confirm, my swap device looks like: : :venus# pstat -s :Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type :/dev/amrd0s1b 2097024 8708 2088316 0% Interleaved : :which is just under 2048m, at 2039m instead ... so ... should I sent it :down to 2000m even, or ... ? : :And all I need to do is set 'dumpdev="/dev/amrd0s1b' in /etc/rc.conf ... :no other settings I need? pstat -s reports 128K less then the actual size of the partition, so you have 2097152 = 2G exactly. 2048m should be fine. Yes, setting dumpdev="/dev/amrd0s1b" in /etc/rc.conf should do it. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message