Subject: Re: savecore_flags="-z"
To: Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@mono.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/06/1999 20:47:08
	I'd ber surprised if savecore with compressed used more VM than
	various things earlier in the boot, such as fsck... :)


		David/absolute

On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Matthias Drochner wrote:

> 
> abs@mono.org said:
> > 	Just to confirm - is anyone unhappy with having "-z" as
> > 	the default flags to savecore. 
> 
> Hmm - this is kind of tradeoff between disk space and
> RAM usage.
> With a small RAM, the compression might have to use the
> swap space you are going to get the crash dump from.
> 
> best regards
> Matthias
> 
>