URGENT: [diagnostic] cache_lock: blocked on 0xda5265a8 ""

[Matthew Dillon]

:>
:> dd if=/dev/mem of=filename bs=1M
:>
:
:So ive done this, but it went to save swap memory which was taking ages so
:i stopped it. can it still be used? if so what to do now?
:
:petr

    I don't think it is quite that easy.  Physical memory is not necessarily
    contiguous so you have to followthe same algorithm that the kernel uses
    to dump.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>