conf/63648: [PATCH] make the startup savecore(8) to compress
saved cores by default
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 2 10:20:11 PST 2004
The following reply was made to PR conf/63648; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org>
To: Xin LI <delphij at frontfree.net>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: conf/63648: [PATCH] make the startup savecore(8) to compress saved cores by default
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 20:12:52 +0200
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:48:01AM +0800, Xin LI wrote:
[...]
> On a machine having big RAM, it will be a nightmare to have many
> coredumps saved in /var/crash, and compressing it by default will
> make unattended boxes possible to have more dumps saved.
> For users do not want to save a compressed coredumps, it
> is always possible to set savecore_flags="" in rc.conf.
>
> Index: rc.conf
[...]
> -savecore_flags="" # Used if dumpdev is enabled above, and present.
> +savecore_flags="-z" # Used if dumpdev is enabled above, and present.
I don't see much point making it the default, as it violates POLA.
Many users expect ``gdb -k'' to just work, without needing to
uncompress core first.
Cheers,
--
Ruslan Ermilov
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