Minidumps in -STABLE and "smaller than physical memory"

Dmitry Pryanishnikov dmitry at atlantis.dp.ua
Thu Sep 21 01:44:28 PDT 2006


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)

?

Sincerely, Dmitry
-- 
Atlantis ISP, System Administrator
e-mail:  dmitry at atlantis.dp.ua
nic-hdl: LYNX-RIPE


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