Reinoud Zandijk said:

>I'm sorry to say but i have to agree with Darren here. I'm using and have 
>used several architectures running NetBSD but the i386 is on of the worst 
>on crash information recovering. This is part due to the stated lack of 
>messagebuffer survival and the wierd kernel coredump saving in the swap 
>space. If the swap space is not twice the amount of memory in the machine 
>dumping a kernel core is impossible. What would be better is a mechanism 
>that either revovers kernel coredumps _before_ the swap is turned on or a 
>mechanism that allows the swapper to recognize kernel coredumps so it can 
>spare the dump as long as possible.

On Sequent Dynix/ptx there was a configuration file that allowed allocating
a portion of swap that wouldn't be touched until the coredump had been
retrieved.
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