On 4/14/17, 3:39 PM, "Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)" <owner-svn-src-...@freebsd.org
on behalf of yaneurab...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 14, 2017, at 13:37, Larry Rosenman <l...@lerctr.org> wrote:
>
> On 4/14/17, 3:33 PM, "Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)" <yaneurab...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>> On Apr 14, 2017, at 13:26, Larry Rosenman <l...@lerctr.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 4/14/17, 3:19 PM, "Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)"
<owner-svn-src-...@freebsd.org on behalf of yaneurab...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Apr 14, 2017, at 13:14, Slawa Olhovchenkov <s...@zxy.spb.ru> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 01:49:51PM -0600, Alan Somers wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Ngie Cooper <n...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>> Author: ngie
>>>>> Date: Fri Apr 14 19:41:48 2017
>>>>> New Revision: 316938
>>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/316938
>>>>>
>>>>> Log:
>>>>> savecore: fix space calculation with respect to `minfree` in
check_space(..)
>>>>>
>>>>> - Use strtoll(3) instead of atoi(3), because atoi(3) limits the
>>>>> representable data to INT_MAX. Check the values received from
>>>>> strtoll(3), trimming trailing whitespace off the end to maintain
>>>>> POLA.
>>>>> - Use `KiB` instead of `kB` when describing free space, total space,
>>>>> etc. I am now fully aware of `KiB` being the IEC standard for 1024
>>>>> bytes and `kB` being the IEC standard for 1000 bytes.
>>>>> - Store available number of KiB in `available` so it can be more
>>>>> easily queried and compared to ensure that there are enough KiB to
>>>>> store the dump image on disk.
>>>>> - Print out the reserved space on disk, per `minfree`, so end-users
>>>>> can troubleshoot why check_space(..) is reporting that there isn't
>>>>> enough free space.
>>>>>
>>>>> MFC after: 7 weeks
>>>>> Reviewed by: Anton Rang <r...@acm.com> (earlier diff), cem (earlier
diff)
>>>>> Tested with: positive/negative cases (see review); make tinderbox
>>>>> Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
>>>>> Differential Revision: D10379
>>>>
>>>> The free space calculation is still uselessly conservative, because it
>>>> doesn't account for the fact that core dumps will always be either
>>>> spare or compressed. The result is that savecore will frequently
>>>> refuse to save corefiles even when there's plenty of space. I
>>>> proposed removing the space check altogether in
>>>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2587. However, I agreed to wait until
>>>> after the compressed core dump feature was merged, because then mostly
>>>> accurate space checks will be possible. AFAIK the compressed core
>>>> dump feature still hasn't been finished.
>>>
>>> Is posible (in the future) to use multiple swaps (on multiple disks)
>>> for save core dumps?
>>
>> Multiple swap devices is already handled by savecore(8), if one uses
fstab(5) or dumpon(8). Otherwise, you must invoke savecore(8) on individual
devices.
>>
>> As far as saving to multiple disks is concerned, I would hope that one
is using a redundancy capable filesystem (zfs) or RAID-like technology
(gmirror, graid, LSI Fusion’s RAID product line) to stripe and/or mirror the
data across multiple disks.
>
> …
>
>> How do I use multiple devices to have the system dump on all of my swap?
I got a message about not enough space, but there (I think) was enough between
multiple drives….
>
> Something like:
>
> - Create a zpool
> - Mount zpool to /crashdumps
> - Change dumpdir in /etc/rc.conf to be /crashdumps, e.g., echo
‘dumpdir=/crashdumps’
>
> ?
> HTH,
> -Ngie
>
> PS The issue with lack of space might be the issue that Alan brought
up earlier with compressed dumps and overly conservative free space checks, or
it might be the fact that dumpdir (default: /var/crash) is full.
>
>
> I was talking about the actual crashdump to swap by the system.
/var/crash has 10T of space (my root pool).
If your memory is bigger than your swap, you’re unfortunately not able to
save the mini dump if the size of the saved pages exceed the space on swap. I
think this is where markj’s compressed dumps feature will come in handy.
Thanks!
-Ngie
Yeah, I have the following:
borg.lerctr.org /home/ler $ swapctl -l
Device: 1024-blocks Used:
/dev/mfid0p3 8388608 0
/dev/mfid1p3 8388608 0
/dev/mfid2p3 8388608 0
/dev/mfid3p3 8388608 0
/dev/mfid4p3 8388608 0
/dev/mfid5p3 8388608 0
borg.lerctr.org /home/ler $ sysctl hw.physmem
hw.physmem: 137368682496
borg.lerctr.org /home/ler $
SO 6 8G partitions (48G), but the dump is larger than 8G.
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