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

From: Don Bowman <don_at_sandvine.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:48:29 -0500
From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:kris_at_obsecurity.org]
> 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?
> 

Hmmm, i hadn't considered that. Its not PAE. Is this important
if its at least > phys mem size? It didn't give me any errors
when i created it.
Received on Thu Mar 04 2004 - 14:48:35 UTC

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