Re: Does FreeBSD support sparse kernel crash dumps?

2006-04-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 07), Peter Wemm said: > On Friday 07 April 2006 04:01 pm, Paul Marciano wrote: > > Do you compress the data stream at all (e.g. gzip)? > > No, but it could be done in theory.. if you were willing to set aside > some memory for the compression algorithm to use. Or just do

Re: Does FreeBSD support sparse kernel crash dumps?

2006-04-07 Thread Peter Wemm
On Friday 07 April 2006 04:01 pm, Paul Marciano wrote: > --- Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 07 April 2006 12:47 pm, Paul Marciano > > > > wrote: > > > Hello. I read a while back about someone working > > > > on > > > > > supporting sparse kernel crash dumps (dumping only > > >

Re: Does FreeBSD support sparse kernel crash dumps?

2006-04-07 Thread Paul Marciano
--- Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 07 April 2006 12:47 pm, Paul Marciano > wrote: > > Hello. I read a while back about someone working > on > > supporting sparse kernel crash dumps (dumping only > the > > active kernel pages to the dump device as opposed > to > > all physical m

Re: Does FreeBSD support sparse kernel crash dumps?

2006-04-07 Thread Peter Wemm
On Friday 07 April 2006 12:47 pm, Paul Marciano wrote: > Hello. I read a while back about someone working on > supporting sparse kernel crash dumps (dumping only the > active kernel pages to the dump device as opposed to > all physical memory - for machines where the phys mem > is greater than the

Does FreeBSD support sparse kernel crash dumps?

2006-04-07 Thread Paul Marciano
Hello. I read a while back about someone working on supporting sparse kernel crash dumps (dumping only the active kernel pages to the dump device as opposed to all physical memory - for machines where the phys mem is greater than the dump dev space.) Does anyone know the status of that project?