Subject: Re: writing crashdump
To: Mipam <mipam@ux11.ltcm.net>
From: Jeff Rizzo <riz@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/23/2006 19:43:32
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Mipam wrote:
> On Tue, 23 May 2006, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
>  =20
>>
>> the "dumps on" part tells what partition it will use to write crash du=
mps.
>> Usually this is the swap partition.
>>
>> Please verify that this partition exists and is large enough for the d=
ump
>> (larger than the amount of RAM).
>>    =20
>
> dmesg says: "root on wd0a dumps on wd0b".
> It says: "total memory =3D 767 MB".
> disklabel wd0 says this:
>
> b: 263088 [offset] swap ............................
>
> Maybe my swap is too small?
>  =20

Yes, this is exactly the issue - in order to get a crash dump, your dump
partition needs to be larger than your RAM;  yours is smaller.

+j



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