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On 25/09/2010, at 8:23, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> savecore already has support for a 'minfree' file to prevent
> crashdumps filling the crashdir.  Maybe the default install should
> include a minfree set to (say) 512MB.

Or perhaps add maxcount and set it to 1 as well as minfree at 512Mb.

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