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Date:      Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:46:55 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C1lvaro?= Castillo <echotty3@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nvidia-driver not work
Message-ID:  <20100815114655.65073248@ernst.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikTFjjAvOgQffHM6MuobcF7n6eXfRyG=hMhBH7S@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:35:02 +0100
__lvaro Castillo <echotty3@gmail.com> wrote:

> I dont understand this -> Dump failed. Partition too small. -> My root
> partition has got a 435GB only ocupated 17GB and swap 512MB
> 

You have 4GB of memory and only 512MB of swap - too small to dump the
contents of memory.  Crash dumps go to the swap partition, not the
root partition.

swap should be about 1-1/2 times the size of memory if you want to be
able to capture crash dumps, as a rule of thumb.

--
Gary Jennejohn



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