On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:06:40PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:16:36PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:15:47PM +0400, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:14:33AM +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 11:44 +0300, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: > > > > > Hello! > > > > > > > > > > I've noticed (with the 2-day old RELENG_6) that I still can't > > > > > configure my > > > > > 256Mb swap partition as a dump device for i386 machine with 1Gb RAM > > > > > despite > > > > > having minidumps enabled: > > > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sysctl debug.minidump > > > > > debug.minidump: 1 > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] dumpon -v /dev/ad0s3b > > > > > /dev/ad0s3b is smaller than physical memory > > > > > > > > > > Am I correctly understand that minidumps should lift the restriction > > > > > > > > > > sizeof(dumpdev) >= sizeof(RAM) > > > > > > > > Yes. > > > > > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/dumpon/dumpon.c.diff?r1=1.22&r2=1.23 > > > > needs to be MFC'd. > > > > > > > I sent an MFC request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > >From time to time I've had problems with minidumps on HEAD. Calling > > doadump() seems to work ok, but after a reset there's no dump. I > > haven't had time to test this systematically. Has anybody else seen > > this problem? > > > I think this was the same problem as was diagnosed (minidumps + amd64 + > SMP). Though it's not fixed yet, it's understood and its damage is > avoided. > > > Cheers, > -- > Ruslan Ermilov > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > FreeBSD committer
No, this was and is i386. After changing "doadump;reset" to doadump;continue" it would seem that the dumps has a higher chance of making it to the disk. -- Peter _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"