Re: is dumpon/savecore broken?

[David Scheidt]

On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:

> 
>     A crash dump would have to uncopmressed to gdb it.   If you have
>     sufficient space to hold a crash dump, just point /var/crash at that
>     space.  If you compress it right off the bat then someone is going to
>     have to uncompress it to look at it.

savecore saving compressed crash dumps is handy on production machines
with lots of memory.  I run a bunch of HP/UX boxes that don't have 4 gigs
in /var/crash, because they never crash, except of course when they do.
It is very useful to be able to save the dump, even if I have to analyze 
it somewhere else.  

David Scheidt



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