5.3R crashing repeateadly

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 01:42:21AM -0200, Crist?v?o Dalla Costa wrote:
> Hello, this is just to report back that disabling hyper-threading in the 
> BIOS made the problem go away completely. I'm sorry I didn't generate a 
> core dump but because I installed four swap partitions each with half 
> the size of the RAM and the handbook says I needed one swap partition 
> with at least the same size, and I don't have the time to fiddle with 
> partitions now.

You can limit the amount of RAM used by the system at boot time with
the hw.physmem tunable, set in /boot/loader.conf.  Set it to something
smaller than your largest swap partition and dump there.

Kris
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