Re: [lkdump-develop] Estimating diskdump space use with varyingdump_levels

[Takao I. <ind...@jp...>]

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