Re: Attempt to write outside dump device boundaries.

Julian Elischer wrote:
> Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>> Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>>>> 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?  ;)
>>>
>>> I'd have thought it was obvious: "why?"
>>>
>>> Kris
>>
>> Not enough swap space?
> 
> It used to check that before starting.. did that check get removed?

It does check when it starts.  The problem is that the size grows after
that.

Scott