>Number:         16001
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Kernel dump files are not compressed on the fly when written to swap
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 21 15:30:00 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Tero Kivinen
>Release:        NetBSD 1.5ZC
>Organization:
SSH Communications Security
>Environment:
System: NetBSD kaakeli.ssh.fi 1.5ZC NetBSD 1.5ZC (KAAKELI) #7: Wed Mar 20 14:08:02 CST 2002 kivinen@kaakeli.ssh.fi:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/KAAKELI i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:

	Because the kernel has zlib code in it anyways, why the kernel
	cannot write the dump file in compressed format to the swap.
	This way you could get working dumps even when your first swap
	partition is smaller than the amount of memory you have.

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