Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 22:42:47 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is dumpon/savecore broken? Message-ID: <22116.932503367@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jul 1999 15:36:22 CDT." <Pine.NEB.3.96.990720151603.81780A-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>
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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96.990720151603.81780A-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>, Dav id Scheidt writes: >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? I'm pretty sure it would. I think the lack of libz has prevented it in the past. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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