Re: Kernel core dumps on amd64

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Thomas E. Spanjaard wrote:

> Can anyone reliably dump core on a -current amd64? I can't; out of the 11 
> tries it only succeeded once, and then savecore proceeded to ignore the dump 
> for whatever reason. A 12th test using the panic key produced a null pointer 
> dereference in __wdstart while dumping (after about 5Mibyte of the 2Gibyte 
> total).

I had a core dump yesterday while playing with some local kernel mods. 
It worked just fine.


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