On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 18:02, Deano <de...@rattie.demon.co.uk> wrote: > First question, why huge space for dump files anyway? How many people use > that facility?
Anyone who wants any bugs they encounter fixed. > Second do we really use half memory for swap with large memory configs? > It's a rough guess based on the likely compressability of the crash dump, and the likely size of the kernel image. dumpadm(1) has its own logic as to the minimum size of dump device it will even attempt to configure. I don't know how or if it and install agree. It would perhaps be reasonable to have install configure the minimum size acceptable to dumpadm. -- Rich _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
