Re: Swap-space

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 02:02:34AM +0800, Eduardo Tongson wrote:
> > If you want to help us developers, ensure that the swap size is greater
> > than the RAM size and point dumpdev to your swap partition. This allows
> > the system to coredump when hitting fatal conditions, which are not
> > likely, but sometimes unavoidable.
> 
> I am unfamiliar with coredumps.
> How do I point the dumpdev to the swap partition and how can I extract
> the dump from it?

Put e.g. "dumpdev=/dev/ad0s1b" in /etc/rc.conf and ensure that /var/crash
has enough space [RAM size + kernel size], that's all.

Joerg