Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 20:06:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: partial dumps (was Re: Change default dumpdir to /usr/crash?) Message-ID: <16534.56979.473606.42982@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <16534.21617.310294.982202@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <200404301403.50634.past@noc.ntua.gr> <20040430123040.GB30157@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <20040430211948.GC85783@dragon.nuxi.com> <16534.21617.310294.982202@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Andrew Gallatin writes: > accept and port to -current the Duke "partial dump" patches. These > patches allow the user to optionally dump just the kernel virtual > address space. This results in dumps that are generally less than Eeek. I misremembered. The code actually skips free pages, memory holes, and file-backed (aka vmio) pages. So you can end up with a lot more than the kernel map. But I think it should still be a huge win. Drew
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