From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 17 9:50:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from web21109.mail.yahoo.com (web21109.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.227.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CBDF37B405 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 09:50:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20020517165054.82390.qmail@web21109.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [62.254.0.5] by web21109.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 17 May 2002 09:50:54 PDT Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 09:50:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Hiten Pandya Reply-To: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ? To: "Marc G. Fournier" , Andrew Gallatin Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020517134254.W41731-100000@mail1.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: > Well, downloaded the files (a .tar.gz would be nice? *grin*) and the > client built perfectly, and kldload worked fine ... is there some way > someone can suggest of 'simulating a crash'? Some way to test to make > sure that it is working as expected? I have a 4.6-PRE machine on my desk > that I'd like to test with before I try it on "the real thing", if at all > possible? If you have DDB in your kernel, then you can press Ctrl+Alt+Esc; by doing that, you will enter into the kernel debugger (DDB). At the prompt displayed, type 'panic' without the quotes and then should hopefully generate a dump. Regards. -- Hiten __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message