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Date:      Mon, 3 May 2004 18:50:24 +0200
From:      Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Subject:   Re: partial dumps (was Re: Change default dumpdir to /usr/crash?)
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In-Reply-To: <20040503145519.GA74546@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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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?

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>

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