On 8/9/11 10:33 PM, Daryl Sayers wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE (64bit) system with 4G mem installed. I have > had a few kernel panics over the last few weeks and would like to capture > a core dump. I have added the following to /etc/rc.conf > > dumpdev="AUTO" > dumpdir=/var/crash > > The /var/crash is a 5G filesystem (with 4.8G free). > When the machine panics the last 2 lines on the console are something like: > > > Physical memory: 3057 MB > Dumping 204 MB: 189 173 157 141 125 > > > The system then completely hangs and a hardware rest is required. As the dump > does not seem to finish I dont get my core dump in /var/cache when the machine > reboots. > > Any ideas?? >
Daryl, A couple of questions: 1) How big is your swap partition? Is it large enough to hold the crash dump? 2) What type of hardware is this? I know that HP Proliants using the CISS raid control fail to produce a crashdump and just hangup these boxes. Perhaps this occurs for other types of hardware? Patrick _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"