From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Mar 13 7:46:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 251DF37B417; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 07:46:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 33B425346; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:46:17 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Josef Karthauser , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@FreeBSD.ORG, jake@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dumpsys() rewrite References: <20020313093805.GA29679@genius.tao.org.uk> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 13 Mar 2002 16:46:16 +0100 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garance A Drosihn 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... > Or does it already do > some of that? savecore(1) does. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message