Alexandre Chartre wrote:
> What is taking 2 hours? Dumping the crash during a panic or running
> savecore to generate the unix/vmcore files after the panic?

Dumping the crash. It isn't this slow all the time. The times I've 
noticed it have been I was running a memory intensive test and I've 
stopped the system and issued a "sync".

> I never had this problem although I regularly generates crash dumps
> which are more 500Mb large.

Hmm. Let me try this without my changes. Perhaps my LDC changes are 
affecting the speed.

P.S., please let me know if this is not the type of conversation this 
alias is intended to be used for.

Thanks,
Haik

> 
> alex.
> 
> Haik Aftandilian wrote:
>> At present I've configured my LDoms such that each domain has a swap 
>> disk image and a root disk image. The problem I run into is that for 
>> large memory images (my domain has 4GB of memory), it takes ~2 hours 
>> to save the core dump.
>>
>> Here's the zfs listing for a single domain.
>>
>> # zfs list
>> NAME                                 USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
>> ldomszpool                          16.2G  31.7G    29K  /ldomszpool
>> ldomszpool/ldm1-disk                11.2G  31.7G  10.0G  
>> /ldomszpool/ldm1-disk
>> ldomszpool/ldm1-swap                1.00G  31.7G  1.00G  
>> /ldomszpool/ldm1-swap
>>
>> Is there a better way to do this? Or is using a real disk instead of a 
>> file-based disk image for swap going to be the only way to get better 
>> core dump performance?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Haik
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