On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:14:47AM +0200, Nadav Eiron wrote:
> > i considered adding this, but even with the reboots, i need the systems in
> > production, and i suspect that adding the debug stuff would cause the system
> > to wait for manual intervention.
> 
> I didn't add kernel debugger, just kernel dumps. All the time it takes on
> a reboot is the time your disks take to copy RAM to swapspace. Even with
> your RAM size it should be less than a minute. 

so, how does one do this?

/etc/rc.conf: 
dumpdev="/dev/da0s2b"  # this is the swap partition

yes?

> > > I haven't seen any of these reboots for about 3 weeks now, but would sure
> > > like to get to the bottom of this, if I can.
> > 
> > so, adding debug to the kernel "fixed" it?
> 
> The kernel is unchanged, so there's nothing that could really fix the
> problem. It did go away though (at least for now) :-)

well, fingers crossed, i'll give it a whirl.

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