On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 10:27:02PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> :Thus spake Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> :> Erik Trulsson wrote:
> :> > Minimal swap if you want to be able to catch core dumps: Physical RAM
> :> > size + 64K
> :
> :I've caught many core dumps with swap == RAM. Am I just getting
> :lucky, or am I losing 64K of the image?
> :
> :> Crash dumps good.
> :
> :I beg to differ. ;-)
>
> You only need as much as physical ram. e.g. 1G of ram, 1G on the
> dump device (which can be the swap partition).
The man page for dumpon(8) says:
The size of the specified dump device must be at least 64 KB
greater than the size of physical memory.
So I guess either you or the manpage is wrong.
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Erik Trulsson
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