On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 8:17 PM, James Sizemore <[email protected]> wrote: > First a little history, I manage 10,000 Unix systems (as part of the > Break/Fix group) for a large international bank. So I am a little sensitive > to lack of core dumps or failed core dumps. As not having them makes my job a > pain. About a third of these are Linux. The problem with using common disk > space for core dumps would be that if root or var were full that common space > would not be available for dumping the core. So to guaranty a good cores you > either need an unused partition of at least RAM size that does nothing useful > 99.99% of the time or a swap partition of at least RAM size that could at > least be useful for buying time in a case of a memory leak. You still need > to find space to save the core if root or var are full but you still have the > core. And either way you have some amount of disk space used up that is > equal to the size or ram. Why not have it as swap?
Because we're talking about system cores, not process cores. System kernel dumps are quite different and, unless you're using experimental hardware, are quite rare. -Tilghman -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
