svn commit: r244112 - head/sys/kern

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 02:33:37PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> Your use case (small swap & large ram) is exactly why I would like to try this. 
> 
> Do you object?

Let me quote myself, because you clearly missed my position:

	"I'm not against this change, but I would not use it myself."

I hope that's fine by you!:)

> > Well... :) savecore(8) has an option to compress the dumps. The only use
> > case for compressing-while-dumping I see is small swap/dump partition.
> > I'm not against this change, but I would not use it myself. When you are
> > dumping your kernel is in undefined state, so the less code you execute
> > in that state the higher chances your dump will succeed. I much prefer
> > to either compress the dumps with savecore(8) or use ZFS dataset with
> > compression enabled for /var/crash/.

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