Re: savecore: Value too large to be stored in data type

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 15:24:46 -0800
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 04:41:12PM -0500, Don Bowman wrote:
> has anyone seen this problem on a panic?
> 
> i have 4GB of physical memory, running 5.2.1 RC.
> I had a panic occur, and it won't write the whole vmcore.
> 
> 1985347584 is the size of the vmcore i get (not compressed).
> Its not useful as far as i can tell, gdb doesn't know where
> to begin.
> 
> My swap partition is 8GB. The filesystem i'm saving the
> vmcore too is plenty big enough.

Can 8GB of swap even be addressed on i386?

Kris

Received on Thu Mar 04 2004 - 14:24:51 UTC

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