Phil Pennock <[email protected]> writes: > While I mostly agree about the limited utility of swap, on FreeBSD I > still went (go, on my personal box) for swap >= RAM for one simple > reason: kernel crash dumps.
The linux guys are very anti-dump. Personally, I find that 95% of the time console output (and I think a logging serial console is essential) gives you all the info you need anyhow, and the other 5% of the time, I don't seem to be able to get anyone else to help me. The current crashdump tool, kdump, lets you copy the kernel to a partition, or even over the network to somewhere else. But personally, I don't save dumps under Linux, just 'cause they change crashdump utilities every two years, and because nobody seems to know how to do anything with them. FreeBSD is superior in this regard, getting a backtrace out of a FreeBSD dump is trivial. -- Luke S. Crawford http://prgmr.com/xen/ - Hosting for the technically adept http://nostarch.com/xen.htm - We don't assume you are stupid. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
