Using Swap partition for Core dump

[Robert Huff]

Loren M. Lang writes:

>  Looking through the system startup scripts I discovered that the
>  system runs a program called savecore that save a core dump to a
>  file in /var/crash from a previous crash.  The problem is that
>  this is run after swap has been turned on.

	True.
	However: in my experience this happens sufficiently early after
swapon that if you're _using_ swap at this point you have other
issues (e.g. not enough memory or badly configured programs).
	I have never had a problem with savecore reading the dump from
the designated dump device.


					Robert Huff