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Wilko Bulte writes:
 > 
 > 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.

And they also have other optimizations (partial dumps, dumps to RAM)
which make dumping fast.  BTW, dumping to RAM is so God Damned
cool.. we should do it too -- what platforms have memory which is
persistant across reboots besides alpha?

Between partial dumps, dumping to RAM, and compression, my XP1000 at
work will dump in about 5 seconds for a 512 MB machine.   I almost
don't mind crashing it because its so cool to watch it dump in a few
seconds ;)

Drew

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