I'd guess because gdb can't read a .gz file...

Simon.
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David Brownlee wrote:

> 	Any reason this isn't on by default?
> 	Its probably going to save more trouble than it could cause...
>
> 		David/absolute
> 
> On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Simon Burge wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
>