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From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
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Subject: Re: How to do a kernel dump?
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> This isn't guaranteed 100% correct, but at least if it's not,
> maybe it'll get someone else involved.
> Below my "dumpdev" in rc.conf I have
> savecore_flags="-z"
> to compress the core dump & kernel with gzip. Also, read man savecore
> again, esp the part about minfree in /var/crash & free kilobytes for
> non-superusers in the file system after the copies would be made.

Thanks Denny, that was 100% correct.

Olivier