Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 13:45:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> Cc: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is dumpon/savecore broken? Message-ID: <199907202045.NAA06906@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990720151603.81780A-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>
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: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
<dillon@backplane.com>
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