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 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, when dumping only kernel
> pages. 
> 
> 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...
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> Cheers,
> Tom
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