conf/63648: [PATCH] make the startup savecore(8) to compress
saved cores by default
Kris Kennaway
kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Mar 6 00:50:13 PST 2004
The following reply was made to PR conf/63648; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: conf/63648: [PATCH] make the startup savecore(8) to compress saved cores by default
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 00:50:03 -0800
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:20:10AM -0800, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> 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.
I agree..as you say in your other response, that's what the variable is there for.
Kris
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