On 02 Dec 1999 12:42:38 -0500 
 root@ihack.net (Charles M. Hannum) wrote:

 > Note that such a hack is also fairly critical for getting *any* useful
 > information from a system with a large amount of memory.  Disks may be
 > getting faster, but dumping 4GB still takes quite a while.

...and requires a pretty large dump partition :-)

Hell, dumping 256M takes long enough to be annoying :-)

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>