On 17/01/2012 08:43, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > The dumpon utility will refuse to enable a dump device which is > smaller > than the total amount of physical memory as reported by the hw.physmem > sysctl(8) variable. > > However, I have found that > > # dumpon -v /dev/ad4s1b > kernel dumps on /dev/ad4s1b > > # sysctl hw.physmem > hw.physmem: 25744310272 > > # swapinfo > Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity > /dev/ad4s1b 8388608 0 8388608 0% > > So, 24Gb RAM, 8Gb swap device. No complaints from dumpon. Either it is > silently failing (poor response from the app) or it is incorrectly > setting the dump device to something too small.
We have minidumps nowadays: that's been the default since 7.0.
Cheers,
Matthew
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