Logging panic messages

2005-02-04 Thread Tony Arcieri
I'm running a 5.3 system with a kernel built from the latest RELENG_5 sources as of 15 days ago which has just experienced another sporadic reboot in a long sequence of sporadic reboots which have occured since the system was originally installed. It was up some 30 days without trouble before I

Re: Logging panic messages

2005-02-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
Tony Arcieri wrote: I originally configured a dumpdev only to discover that the size of swap must exceed physical memory by 1MB in order for it to work, which it does not, unfortunately. So dumpdev won't work to collect crash data. You might set hw.physmem to a smaller value in loader.conf to fit

Re: Logging panic messages

2005-02-04 Thread Tony Arcieri
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 04:28:54PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: You might set hw.physmem to a smaller value in loader.conf to fit within the amount of swapspace which is available: set hw.physmem=value MAXMEM (i386 only) Limits the amount of physical