On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 01:02:16PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > [snip] > ET> Minimal swap if you want to be able to catch core dumps: Physical RAM > ET> size + 64K > ET> > ET> Personally, in your situation I would probably configure enough swap to > ET> be able to catch a core dump and not much more, i.e. slightly more than > ET> 1G swap. > > BTW, is it safe to create _interleaved_ swap totally sized slightly above > the amount of physical RAM? I mean, is core writer interleve-aware, or > does it need the first swap partiton large enough?
The coredumping code does not know about interleaved swap. It just uses a single swap partition which must be large enough. Read the dumpon(8) manpage for more information. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
