Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and savecore

2006-11-10 Thread johansen-osdev
This is CR: 4894692 caching data in heap inflates crash dump I have a fix which I am testing now. It still needs review from Matt/Mark before it's eligible for putback, though. -j On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 02:40:40PM -0800, Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this is the right f

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and savecore

2006-11-10 Thread Neil Perrin
You're right. A bug has already been raised for this: 4894692 caching data in heap inflates crash dump Thomas Maier-Komor wrote On 11/10/06 15:40,: Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but I guess this topic will be bounced into the right direction from here. With ZFS using as much

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and savecore

2006-11-10 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 14:40 -0800, Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: > Might it be possible to add an extension that would make it possible, > to support dumping without the whole ZFS cache? I guess this would > make kernel live dumps smaller again, as they used to be... It's just a bug: 4894692 caching

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and savecore

2006-11-10 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but I guess this topic will be bounced into the right direction from here. With ZFS using as much physical memory as it can get, dumps and livedumps via 'savecore -L' are huge in size. I just tested it on my workstation and got a 1.8G vmcore file,