How to choose the size of swap?

Martin Simmons martin at lispworks.com
Tue Dec 7 12:09:21 UTC 2010


>>>>> On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 13:42:23 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick said:
> 
> And don't forget that (by default) you'll need a /var filesystem that
> has enough physical room to hold the dump.  You can change this using
> the "dumpdir" option in rc.conf(5) if your existing /var isn't large
> enough.  Just make sure to copy /var/crash to /wherever, and make sure
> the file/dir permissions are correct + minfree file exists.

Is that working from swap-based dumps now?  Last time I looked, the boot
sequence enables swap before the dump is copied, so it is lost.

__Martin


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