system hangup - I'm lost

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Sep 30 15:53:12 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 30 September 2008 10:57:19 am Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> > (CTRL+ALT+ESC) and run 'panic' to generate a crash dump.
> 
> problem here is, that after some memory upgrade my swapspace is no longer
> bigh enough to cover the memory size. I'll try this as a last resort if
> the interactive work with kdb does not provide any help and will remove
> some memory before it then...

Turn on minidumps.  minidumps don't dump all of memory (generally a lot, lot 
less).

-- 
John Baldwin


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