Re: Attempt to write outside dump device boundaries.

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 01:09:52PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> I am frequently getting this when trying to minidump on amd64:
> 
> Physical memory: 8168 MB
> Dumping 2133 MB: 2118 2102 2086 2070 2054 2038 2022 2006 1990 1974 1958 
> 1942 1926 1910 1894 1878 1862 1846 1830 1814 1798 1782 1766 1750 1734 
> 1718 1702 1686 1670 1654 1638 1622 1606 1590 1574 1558 1542 1526 1510 
> 1494 1478 1462 1446 1430 1414 1398 1382 1366 1350 1334 1318 1302 1286 
> 1270 1254 1238 1222 1206 1190 1174 1158 1142 1126 1110 1094 1078 1062 
> 1046 1030 1014 998 982 966 950 934 918 902 886 870 854 838 822 806 790 
> 774 758 742 726 710 694 678 662 646 630 614 598 582 566 550 534 518 502 
> 486 470 454 438 422 406 390 374 358 342 326 310 294 278 262 246 230 214 
> 198 182 166 150 134 118 102 86 70 54 38 22 6Attempt to write outside 
> dump device boundaries.
> 
> ** DUMP FAILED (ERROR 6) **
> = 0
> 
Yes, it happens most often on SMP machines.  Previously it could
overwrite data on your disk (in our case it destroyed GEOM mirrors).
Now the attempt is logged and prevented.

What's your question?  ;)


Cheers,
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