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Old 18th April 2012
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Correction: crash(8), not crash(9).

Additional info: crash dumps will be saved to disk for post mortem analysis, if:
  1. The kernel is able to function sufficiently to dump RAM to swap space on command from ddb or automatically, depending on sysctl settings.
  2. There is sufficient swap space available
  3. There is sufficient disk space available for the dump to be saved from swap upon reboot -- rc(8) calls savecore(8) and the default directory used is /var/crash.
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