Change default dumpdir to /usr/crash?

[Brad Knowles]

At 10:00 AM +0200 2004/05/03, Erik Trulsson wrote:

>  Try that calculation for a machine with 32MB RAM. You probably need a
>  minimum suggested amount of memory as well for that.

	Okay, then memory * 1.25, with a minimum of memory + 256MB, and a 
maximum of memory + 1GB.

>  A base value + memory size sounds better.

	As you proved, you need a lower bound of usefulness.  But you 
also need an upper bound, and when it comes to things like logfiles 
and other things you might want to store in /var, the larger the 
memory on the system the larger the logfiles, etc... are likely to be.

	Therefore, a multiplier based on memory is more likely to be 
useful than simple addition.

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