On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Gurpratap Virdi wrote:
:Hi,
:
:
:I have the following questions related to the above instructions though.
:I understand we can use dumpon(8) to tell the kernel to dump the core file
:to a swap partition. If our system is only configured with one swap
:partition, can we still point the kernel to this partition? I mean would
Yes. Your dump partition should be at least as large as your physical
memory.
:the core file get overwritten when the system reboots and uses the space as
:swap again. Now, supposedly the kernel is able to write the core file to the
:swap partition and the system reboots without overwriting the core file, how
:do we access the core file?
savecore(8) will copy the dump to /var/crash at startup. /var/crash needs
to be big enough ot hold the dump, and the running kernel.
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