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.
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