Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ?

2002-05-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Well, I have a machine to debug/test this on, if you can provide some directions on how to debug and get her up to date? :) With the larger and larger systems that ppl are implementing, is this something that might be useful to get into the core system? On Sat, 18 May 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrot

Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ?

2002-05-18 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Marc G. Fournier writes: > > Okay, seem to be about halfway there ... client kldload's no problem, > server runs ... do a ctl-alt-esc to get into DDB and type panic, and it > gives a message that its looking for the server and it finds it on the > right IP ... then it prints out a '1023' an

Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ?

2002-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Okay, seem to be about halfway there ... client kldload's no problem, server runs ... do a ctl-alt-esc to get into DDB and type panic, and it gives a message that its looking for the server and it finds it on the right IP ... then it prints out a '1023' and finishes the panic ... On the 'dump se

Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ?

2002-05-17 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Marc G. Fournier writes: > > Well, downloaded the files (a .tar.gz would be nice? *grin*) and the > client built perfectly, and kldload worked fine ... is there some way > someone can suggest of 'simulating a crash'? Some way to test to make > sure that it is working as expected? I have a

Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ?

2002-05-17 Thread Hiten Pandya
--- "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, downloaded the files (a .tar.gz would be nice? *grin*) and the > client built perfectly, and kldload worked fine ... is there some way > someone can suggest of 'simulating a crash'? Some way to test to make > sure that it is working as exp

Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ?

2002-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Well, downloaded the files (a .tar.gz would be nice? *grin*) and the client built perfectly, and kldload worked fine ... is there some way someone can suggest of 'simulating a crash'? Some way to test to make sure that it is working as expected? I have a 4.6-PRE machine on my desk that I'd like

Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ?

2002-05-17 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Marc G. Fournier writes: > > Oh, I like the netdump one ... I have a machine sitting right beside this > one that I can use to dump to ... has anyone thought to include this as a > 'standard' sort of thing with FreeBSD? So that it keeps up with the > current code? > > I plan to integr

Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ?

2002-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Oh, I like the netdump one ... I have a machine sitting right beside this one that I can use to dump to ... has anyone thought to include this as a 'standard' sort of thing with FreeBSD? So that it keeps up with the current code? On Fri, 17 May 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > There are 3 t