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From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: conf/63648: [PATCH] make the startup savecore(8) to compress
	saved cores by default
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The following reply was made to PR conf/63648; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To: Xin LI <delphij@frontfree.net>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: conf/63648: [PATCH] make the startup savecore(8) to compress saved cores by default
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 10:24:29 +0200

 On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:42:44AM +0800, Xin LI wrote:
 > Hello, Ruslan
 > 
 > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:12:52PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
 > [...]
 > > [...]
 > > > -savecore_flags=""	# Used if dumpdev is enabled above, and present.
 > > > +savecore_flags="-z"	# Used if dumpdev is enabled above, and present.
 > > 
 > > I don't see much point making it the default, as it violates POLA.
 > > Many users expect ``gdb -k'' to just work, without needing to
 > > uncompress core first.
 > [...]
 > 
 > It seems reasonable to me about the POLA violation, thank you
 > for pointing this out. 
 > 
 > Frankly, one of my friends is running a box with 4GB of RAM and
 > having many 4GB'sized coredumps on his /var/crash is really not
 > an interesting thing...
 > 
 > Another possible approach is to have older coredumps compressed
 > after the system is started up, what do you think about this idea?
 > 
 I think those that need it just need to set -z in savecore_flags.
 After all, it's there just to be able to do that.  ;)
 
 
 Cheers,
 -- 
 Ruslan Ermilov
 FreeBSD committer
 ru@FreeBSD.org