[Gllug] Swap file size

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Thu Jan 31 16:53:28 UTC 2002


On Thursday, 31 Jan 2002, Jackson, Harry wrote:
[Sun]
>If the box dies how does it manage to dump this much stuff to swap or am I
>being silly. I can see it dumping some core files etc but Gb's of data take
>a while to drop to disk.

Two possibilities; the kernel may detect a problem that make
continuing impossible, but still be alive; and the boot PROM on Sun
kit is a hell of a lot smarter than a PC BIOS, and may be able to do
the job.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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