Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 13:05:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: partial dumps (was Re: Change default dumpdir to /usr/crash?) Message-ID: <16534.31685.83954.524728@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <p0600201cbcbc28bada78@[10.0.1.2]> References: <200404301403.50634.past@noc.ntua.gr> <20040430123040.GB30157@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <20040430211948.GC85783@dragon.nuxi.com> <16534.21617.310294.982202@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20040503145519.GA74546@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <p0600201cbcbc28bada78@[10.0.1.2]>
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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
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