| Bill Jonas on Fri, 8 Nov 2002 23:10:06 -0500 |
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On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:50:11PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: > (Btw, the reason you should really have a swap *partition* at least > the size of your physical memory is that that's where the crash dump > gets written when your kernel panics. You want that so you can > figure out why it panic'ed. After you reboot, it should end up in > /var/crash or thereabouts. Note that this is generic Unix stuff... I > don't know that Linux does things exactly that way.) Linux doesn't yet do that. Or rather, it does, but it's in a separate add-on patch. It's at <http://lkcd.sf.net>. It appears that the patch was started by SGI, judging from the third Google result when searching on 'lkcd' (Linux Kernel Crash Dump). (Note that the impression I get is that this is not likely to be in 2.6/3.0, at least based on what I read at <http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/archive/2002-Week-44/0094.html>.) -- Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin Attachment:
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