In the last episode (May 03), Andrew Gallatin said: > Another good idea (perhaps in combination with a larger /var) is to > accept and port to -current the Duke "partial dump" patches. These > patches allow the user to optionally dump just the kernel virtual > address space. This results in dumps that are generally less than > 100MB, rather than multiple gigs. > > In nearly all cases, only the kernel address space is needed to > interpret a dump. From what I've seen, this is what Solaris, AIX, > and Tru64 do by default. > > Porting to -current will be non-trivial because of the dump changes > between 4.x and 5.x. If I was to do this, is there any chance that > it could get into the tree? I would certainly hope so! Even a 4gb x86 machine that otherwise doesn't need swap at all would benefit, and would reduce the downtime due to the panic needing to write a full dump, and savecore needing to copy it out of swap. -- Dan Nelson dnelson_at_allantgroup.comReceived on Mon May 03 2004 - 06:45:40 UTC
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