Re: How to do a kernel dump?

2006-03-03 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today Olivier Nicole spake forth boldly: This isn't guaranteed 100% correct, but at least if it's not, maybe it'll get someone else involved. Below my dumpdev in rc.conf I have savecore_flags=-z to compress the core dump kernel with gzip. Also,

Re: How to do a kernel dump?

2006-03-02 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today Olivier Nicole spake forth boldly: Hi, I'd like to get a kernel dump when the machine panics. I set-up dumpdev=/dev/rda0s1b in /etc/rc.conf. My swap is: amandaon41: swapinfo Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Type

Re: How to do a kernel dump?

2006-03-02 Thread Olivier Nicole
This isn't guaranteed 100% correct, but at least if it's not, maybe it'll get someone else involved. Below my dumpdev in rc.conf I have savecore_flags=-z to compress the core dump kernel with gzip. Also, read man savecore again, esp the part about minfree in /var/crash free kilobytes for

How to do a kernel dump?

2006-03-01 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I'd like to get a kernel dump when the machine panics. I set-up dumpdev=/dev/rda0s1b in /etc/rc.conf. My swap is: amandaon41: swapinfo Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Type /dev/rda0s1b 10484480 1048448 0%Interleaved My memory is only 256 MB, so