Re: WAPL panic

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2012, Edgar Fuß wrote:

> It's unreasonable to take a dump because that would take an estimated four
> to five hours. Is there any reasonable way to get a dump out of a 16G box?

If I remember correctly, i386 has partial/sparse crash dumps, but 
they're not yet implemented in amd64.  (Not sure about any others.)

We really should get that done for 7.0 (or maybe even 6.1?)  It really 
does take a long time to dump on my 32GB server...  :)


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