How to choose the size of swap?
Martin Simmons
martin at lispworks.com
Tue Dec 7 16:02:10 UTC 2010
>>>>> On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:45:51 +0200, Andriy Gapon said:
>
> on 07/12/2010 14:09 Martin Simmons said the following:
> >>>>>> 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.
>
> The sequence is that, but the dump should not be destroyed unless the swap gets
> actually used during that period.
Cool, I'm glad it works sometimes! I had a problem with it in 7.2, but I
can't repeat it now in an 8.0 VM.
__Martin
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