Minidumps in -STABLE and "smaller than physical memory"

[Ruslan Ermilov]

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:
> > 
> > root at test2# sysctl debug.minidump
> > debug.minidump: 1
> > root at test2# 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 re at .


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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