svn commit: r316938 - head/sbin/savecore

Larry Rosenman ler at lerctr.org
Sat Apr 15 02:02:07 UTC 2017


It looked like the netdump code might need some stuff for current –CURRENT. 


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On 4/14/17, 9:00 PM, "Conrad Meyer" <cem at freebsd.org> wrote:

    Larry,
    
    You just need to run netdumpd on the nearby server.  It could be a
    port (although I'm not aware that it is ported yet).
    
    Best,
    Conrad
    
    On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 6:37 PM, Larry Rosenman <ler at lerctr.org> wrote:
    > On 4/14/17, 8:35 PM, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd at pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
    >
    >> Yeah, I have the following:
    >     > borg.lerctr.org /home/ler $ swapctl -l
    >     > Device:       1024-blocks     Used:
    >     > /dev/mfid0p3    8388608         0
    >     > /dev/mfid1p3    8388608         0
    >     > /dev/mfid2p3    8388608         0
    >     > /dev/mfid3p3    8388608         0
    >     > /dev/mfid4p3    8388608         0
    >     > /dev/mfid5p3    8388608         0
    >     > borg.lerctr.org /home/ler $ sysctl hw.physmem
    >     > hw.physmem: 137368682496
    >     > borg.lerctr.org /home/ler $
    >     >
    >     > SO 6 8G partitions (48G), but the dump is larger than 8G.
    >
    >     Larry,
    >       This is a very good concern and point given todays more
    >     common huge memory foot prints and lots of spindles.  I'll
    >     keep this in they back of my mind as I tromp around in the
    >     dump code.  I have another solution that may work for you
    >     and that is to use Netdump rather than swapdump.  This
    >     basically eliminates the trip to swap space and you end
    >     up going to savecore style output on the netdump server.
    >
    >     --
    >     Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org
    >
    > What does it take for NetDump to work to a FreeNAS (9.10 nightly) server since that’s what is “next to” this server?
    >
    >
    >
    




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