> > 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 :-)

hmm...but then you could just leave the dump in the dump partition,
right?  i mean...with 4gb ram, when are you *ever* going to swap?  :)

(yes, i know...on machines with 64 bit addressing you could still
swap)

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