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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!tulane.edu!cpk-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!scarolina.edu!usceast!usenet From: Kevin Brown <kbrown@cs.sc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: core won't dump? Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 17:46:23 -0400 Organization: University of South Carolina Lines: 36 Message-ID: <31EEB0AF.167EB0E7@cs.sc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: binky.cs.sc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) When my NetBSD 1.1 kernel crashes (due to my own faulty code), the core does not dump succesfully. I get the following messages: syncing disks... done dumping to dev 1, offset 8 dump32 wd0:wddump recal failed status 0 error 0 io error then it reboots and savecore detects no core when it comes back up. my fstab looks like /dev/wd0a / ffs rw 1 1 /dev/wd0b none swap sw /dev/wd0e /usr ffs rw 1 2 /dev/wd0f /dos msdos rw 1 2 and I have "swapon -a" in the /etc/rc file. I'm concerned that my swap partition might be too small. From the disklabel, it's: (512 B/sec)(4032 sec/cyl)(16 cyl) = 33,030,144 bytes My memory is 32 MB. Is this counted as: 32 * 10^6 = 32,000,000 or 32 * 2^20 = 33,554,432 ? If space is really the problem, I'll repartition things, but I don't want to do unless necessary. My system has an 1.2 GB EIDE disk. Thanks in advance for any advice. A crashdump would really help me out. Kevin -- Kevin Brown Department of Computer Science email: kbrown@cs.sc.edu University of South Carolina http://www.cs.sc.edu/~kbrown Columbia SC 29208 (803) 777-3774