On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 3:39 PM Garrett Wollman <[email protected]> wrote: > > BTW, Alan, mail to your freebsd.org mailbox bounces because you > forward to gmail. > > <<On Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:29:00 -0600, Alan Somers <[email protected]> said: > > > I don't know how to do it from ddb. But if you dump a core file, > > None of our systems are set up for that. They all have huge memory > and pretty tiny swap partitions, and in any case, they don't panic, > they just deadlock. Or the OOM killer just shoots all user processes; > these are nearly indistinguishable from a service provider's > perspective. > > They're just NFS servers; they don't run anything else except what's > necessary for monitoring and administration. > > -GAWollman
Pretty tiny swap partitions? Maybe that's the problem. I recall kib@ telling me that some amount of swap is essential, even when plenty of RAM is available. But I can't remember why. So if you can't upgrade those tiny swap partitions, then I suggest you install an SSD just for use as a dump device. I've done that sometimes.
