Re: is dumpon/savecore broken?

[Matthew Dillon]

:On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:
:> 
:>     * make sure your swap partition is large enough to hold the crash
:>       dump.  If you have 256MB of ram, your swap partition must be 
:>       at least 256MB in size.
:
:Is there any reason that savecore(8) can't write compressed crashdumps?
:(Other than no one haveing ever written the the code, of course.)  In 
:other words, if I wrote this would it get committed?  
:
:David Scheidt 

    A crash dump would have to uncopmressed to gdb it.   If you have
    sufficient space to hold a crash dump, just point /var/crash at that
    space.  If you compress it right off the bat then someone is going to
    have to uncompress it to look at it.

    I sometimes compress crash dumps if I want to save them after I'm through
    gdb'ing them.

                                        -Matt
                                        Matthew Dillon 
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