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Use new savecore(8) option and limit number of kernel dumps that will

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be kept around to the 10 most recent ones.

Add UPDATING entry with info how to return to the previous behaviour (no
limits).

Obtained from:	WHEEL Systems
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Pawel Jakub Dawidek 2012-12-16 23:29:56 +00:00
parent 165557e269
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@ -26,6 +26,13 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 10.x IS SLOW:
disable the most expensive debugging functionality run
"ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
20121217:
By default, only the 10 most recent kernel dumps will be saved. To
restore the previous behaviour (no limit on the number of kernel dumps
stored in the dump directory) add the following line to /etc/rc.conf:
savecore_flags=""
20121201:
With the addition of auditdistd(8), a new auditdistd user is now
depended on during installworld. "mergemaster -p" can be used to add

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@ -605,7 +605,9 @@ chkprintcap_enable="NO" # Run chkprintcap(8) before running lpd.
chkprintcap_flags="-d" # Create missing directories by default.
dumpdev="AUTO" # Device to crashdump to (device name, AUTO, or NO).
dumpdir="/var/crash" # Directory where crash dumps are to be stored
savecore_flags="" # Used if dumpdev is enabled above, and present.
savecore_flags="-m 10" # Used if dumpdev is enabled above, and present.
# By default, only the 10 most recent kernel dumps
# are saved.
crashinfo_enable="YES" # Automatically generate crash dump summary.
crashinfo_program="/usr/sbin/crashinfo" # Script to generate crash dump summary.
quota_enable="NO" # turn on quotas on startup (or NO).