System doesn't dump

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 2:41:38 am Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> I have a number of actions that reliably panic the system, such as
> performing shutdown -p (yes I'm booting into an inconsistent file
> system every time). Both with my notebook and my workstation.
> 
> However I cannot get the system to dump.
> 
> dumpdir=/var/crash
> and I've tried ada0s2b, /dev/ada0s2b, label/5swap, /dev/label/5swap and AUTO
> for dumpdev to no avail.
> 
> The swap partition is 16g, the machines have 8g RAM and there's plenty
> of hard disk space available for /var/crash.
> 
> I'm looking for that secret, undocumented trigger, that makes the
> system dump if a panic occurs. Once upon a time dumping just worked
> if the swap partition was large enough. I miss those olden days.

Does /dev/dumpdev exist and point to your swap partition after booting?

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John Baldwin