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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Paul Saab <ps@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha pmap.c src/sys/alpha/include param.h src/sys/cam/scsi scsi_da.c src/sys/dev/ata ata-disk.c src/sys/i386/i386 pmap.c src/sys/i386/include param.h src/sys/ia64/ia64 pmap.c src/sys/ia64/include param.h src/sys/vm ...
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On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:05:50AM -0700, Paul Saab wrote:
>   Implement write combining for crashdumps.  This is useful when
>   write caching is disabled on both SCSI and IDE disks where large
>   memory dumps could take up to an hour to complete.

Excilent - we've been meaning to do this for ages - we've one
machine that takes about 30 minutes to dump a core and 10 seconds
to read it ;-)

	David.


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