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Brad Knowles writes:
 > At 7:55 AM -0700 2004/05/03, Steve Kargl wrote:
 > 
 > >  I would support the integration of the changes.  With
 > >  dual opteron systems capacities of 16 to 24 GB of memory,
 > >  partial dump goes from a "nice to have feature" to a
 > >  "we need this feature."
 > 
 > 	Hmm.  What about compressed dumps?  Or are we doing that already?

savecore -z  

This would help with /var sizes, but you'd still need a dump device
as large as physmem.


Drew