System: FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE r185725 amd64 Peculiarities: ZFS, GPART There is 4GB of RAM and 4GB swap/dump partition. The partition is typical swap partition only created via GPART. minidumps are enabled. I had a crash recently and here's a message from it: Dec 6 10:23:17 odyssey kernel: Uptime: 7d20h12m51s Dec 6 10:23:17 odyssey kernel: Physical memory: 4009 MB Dec 6 10:23:17 odyssey kernel: Dumping 2110 MB: 2095 2079 2063 2047 2031 2015 1999 1983 1967 1951 1935 1919 1903 1887 1871 1855 1839 1823 1807 1791 1775 1759 1743 1727 1711 1695 1679 1663 1647 1631 1615 1599 1583 1567 1551 1535 1519 1503 1487 1471 1455 1439 1423 1407 1391 1375 1359 1343 1327 1311 1295 1279 1263 1247 1231 1215 1199 1183 1167 1151 1135 1119 1103 1087 1071 1055 1039 1023 1007 991 975 959 943 927 91 1 895 879 863 847 831 815 799 783 767 751 735 719 703 687 671 655 639 623 607 591 575 559 543 527 511 495 479 463 447 431 415 399 383 367 351 335 319 303 287 271 255 239 223 207 191 175 159 143 127 111 95 79 63 47 31 15Attempt to write outside dump device boundaries. Dec 6 10:23:17 odyssey kernel: Dec 6 10:23:17 odyssey kernel: ** DUMP FAILED (ERROR 6) ** Dec 6 10:23:17 odyssey kernel: Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort I guess the large size of the dump is because of the ZFS but I wonder why enough room for the dump could not be found. -- Andriy Gapon