svn commit: r212964 - head/sys/kern

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> (from Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:28:47 -0400):

>> savecore already has support for a 'minfree' file to prevent
>> crashdumps filling the crashdir.  Maybe the default install should
>> include a minfree set to (say) 512MB.
>
> The one problem this approach is it implements a FIFO instead of a LIFO.  I
> want the N most recent crashdumps to be saved, not the first N.

Check the size in the shell script before, remove older ones ("ls -1t  
| grep pattern | tail +<N+1>" gives you possible candidates).

Bye,
Alexander.

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