Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:14:33 +0100 From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> To: Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minidumps in -STABLE and "smaller than physical memory" Message-ID: <1158833673.4894.5.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060921113711.B70668@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> References: <20060921113711.B70668@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua>
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On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 11:44 +0300, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: > Hello! > > I've noticed (with the 2-day old RELENG_6) that I still can't configure my > 256Mb swap partition as a dump device for i386 machine with 1Gb RAM despite > having minidumps enabled: > > root@test2# sysctl debug.minidump > debug.minidump: 1 > root@test2# dumpon -v /dev/ad0s3b > /dev/ad0s3b is smaller than physical memory > > Am I correctly understand that minidumps should lift the restriction > > sizeof(dumpdev) >= sizeof(RAM) Yes. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/dumpon/dumpon.c.diff?r1=1.22&r2=1.23 needs to be MFC'd. Gavin
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