Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 22:00:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Nick Hibma <hibma@skylink.it> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is dumpon/savecore broken? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990720215904.1670D-100000@heidi.plazza.it> In-Reply-To: <199907201849.LAA06381@apollo.backplane.com>
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And how do you create dumps from a kernel that hasn't finished booting (not gotten to the stage of reading rc.conf)? 'dumps on' in kernel config does not seem to do the job. Nick > A checklist for people who want kernel cores: > > * make sure that dumpdev is set to point to your swap partition > in your /etc/rc.conf > > * make sure your swap partition is large enough to hold the crash > dump. If you have 256MB of ram, your swap partition must be > at least 256MB in size. > > * make sure /var/crash has sufficient space to hold the dump > (note: /var/crash *can* be a softlink to a directory in some > other partition if /var does not have sufficient space) > > /var/crash must nominally have sufficient space to hold the crash > dump (a file of the same size as the amount of memory you have), > *and* the kernel image. Normally you give it a lot more space so > you store several crash dumps in it at once. Nick -- e-Mail: hibma@skylink.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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