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Operating Systems Solaris Coredumps and swap - was part of Solaris Mem Consumption Post 302223582 by jlliagre on Sunday 10th of August 2008 07:22:27 AM
Old 08-10-2008
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Originally Posted by Neo
The discussion was about swap, and you do not need to dump in swap space, you can dump in the filesystem, if you choose.
This is indeed the point and I'm sorry to insist telling you are incorrect in thinking you can dump in the filesystem.

As I already wrote and as the documentation states you either dump in the swap area or in a dedicated partition. The latter doesn't help saving disk space, just the opposite. It helps speeding up the boot process which might make sense.
 

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