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From: Takao I. <ind...@jp...> - 2007-09-25 02:05:47
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Hi Rick, On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:04:17 -0400, Rick Beldin wrote: > I have been trying to assist a customer who is trying to > minimize the amount of space that will be used for a dump. > With a large number of 16GB systems, the end customer is > interested in minimizing the space used. > > Do you know of any studies that have been performed that will > provided some level of estimation for diskdump with dump_level > set to varying amounts? That might be helpful especially > when coupled with the compression that is available in > diskdump. > > Of course, I understand that this is all highly variable, > depending on the architecture, the amount of memory, the > load on the system and so forth but was wondering if there > was some resource other than the README in diskdumputils. I'm sorry I don't know material for estimating. Actually, I tried to estimate the amounts of dump by trial and error before, but I couldn't because the size of dump was very variable, as you know... Regards, Takao Indoh |