Michael Richardson wrote:

> ...  I don't, alas, have the disk space on my notebook left to
> make effective use of savecore... Not sure right now what I can dump since I
> need those 150Mb of internetdrafts for the rest of the week.
> 
>   I have 48Mb of ram, 96Mb of swap, but I don't have enough for savecore
> to finish..
> 
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/wd0a      584982   531784    23948    95%    /
> /dev/wd0h       96624    50604    46020    52%    /dos
> /dev/wd0e      510750   462060    23152    95%    /pzero

Have you tried

	savecore_flags="-z"

in /etc/rc.conf?  Kernel cores seem to compress well...

Simon.