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From: charnier@xp11.frmug.org (Ph. Charnier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD hangs
Date: 7 Oct 1996 22:52:09 +0200
Organization: Ph. Charnier's InterNetNews site
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Message-ID: <xmk684mbiq4.fsf@xp11.frmug.org>
References: <FRODEF.96Oct1160443@dslab5.cs.uit.no>
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>
> frodef@dslab5.cs.uit.no (Frode Vatvedt Fjeld) wrote:
>
> > I discovered a file /var/crash/minfree once (it held the string
> > "2048"), but I have no idea what that means.
>
> It tells savecore(8) to leave at least 2 MB of free space when trying
> to save a kernel coredump.
>
Note that it's terribly broken for now! check pr#1322 for a patch (maybe
a bit old, but as long as cvs can do merge I will have an up to date one,
available on request).
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Philippe Charnier charnier@lirmm.fr (smtp)
charnier@xp11.frmug.org (uucp)
``a PC not running FreeBSD is like a venusian with no tentacles''
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