[Gllug] Swap file size

[Jackson, Harry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Cheetham [mailto:jim.gllug at gonzul.org]
> 
> Errm, but when a Sun box dies and dumps memory, doesn't it 
> stream it all
> into swap space?
> So if you ever needed to do dump analysis to find out what 
> your box was
> doing when it went down, you'd need at least swap = ram ...

If the box dies how does it manage to dump this much stuff to swap or am I
being silly. I can see it dumping some core files etc but Gb's of data take
a while to drop to disk.

Harry


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