Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:31:13 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dumpsys() rewrite Message-ID: <20020313223113.H47476@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <15503.50253.527438.195997@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 04:27:41PM -0500 References: <xzp3cz5v7rp.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020313093805.GA29679@genius.tao.org.uk> <xzp7kogbwmy.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <p05101560b8b522a7f8a1@[128.113.24.47]> <xzpbsds8o8n.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <15503.50253.527438.195997@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 04:27:41PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > > Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> writes: > > > Would it make any sense to compress it in the 'gzip' sense of > > > the word (or some simpler algorithm)? > > > > Not really. The compression rate is not sufficiently predictable, and > > dumping would be s...l...o...w... > > > > You might not want to discount it out of hand. Other OSes (at least > Tru64, possibly others) do compressed dumps effectively. T64 needs to (badly). Given that Wildfires with 256 GB core find their way to customers.. ;-) Even for more modest boxes with 32GB core a compressed dump becomes interesting. Wilko -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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