Rereading the thread...thanks to Perderabo for clarifiying the dump/savecore distinction. I ran the two together which isn't really correct, I was implying the overall process for going from panic to having a saved core, and mostly to the coredump part of the process.
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I strongly disagree about your "fallacy" point. Many Solaris administrators undersize their swap misunderstanding the crash dump requirements.
Ignroance of alternatives is not the same a necessity.
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Please don't insist misleading people.
In the context of this thread I think that it is clear that the comment is accurate.
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Most Solaris installations, I bet more than 99.9%, use the swap partition as their crash dump storage area.
While the vast majority of systems will use swap as a dump area I *know* that it is not 99.9% of systems, also it still does not make it necessary which was the original point.