Luke Maurits <luke%maurits.id.au@localhost> writes: > While setting that I noticed that kern.dump_on_panic=1 seems to be set > by default. Does this mean if my previous reboots were due to panics I > should have core files lying around somewhere? I've checked /var/crash > but all that's there is a file named "minfree" which contains nothing > but the string "1024" and has a timestamp that's older than my acutal > install. Check two things: enough swap space, with the dp flag. man swapctl enough space in /var to get the dump file back out. run /etc/rc.d/savecore manually immediately after the crash, and look if it logged anything. If there's a dump and no space, it will leave it. man savecore
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