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 > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
