From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759496AbZCZXvV (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:51:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754320AbZCZXvJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:51:09 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.159]:38828 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753527AbZCZXvI (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:51:08 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=aPyFqZG8bKNU8Pe52A6OhL3N8DdHP/kWMliHH5iNzLKWkfPwp2r8BAcsIrl1FquSU6 h2FBCO4AYylvdAwauuXV75dthcu6Lk7bqUR0TNXMuv80s25yFZFuiR+kRb1TlgvyKf3e nSDvJ+lptkpbksCInNT0h9B6ksWYwskSLA5tg= Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:58:29 +0300 From: Alexey Dobriyan To: Mark Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: compressed elf core dumps Message-ID: <20090326235829.GA5712@x200.localdomain> References: <49CC032C.20001@cox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49CC032C.20001@cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 06:35:24PM -0400, Mark wrote: > I have a patch set based of a slightly older kernel which offers compressed(gzip) > core dumps. These files compress exceptionally well. This feature can be > helpful for embedded linux systems with smaller file systems. The core > dumps can be taken off line, un-compressed and analyzed. > > If there's any interest, I'll update the patch and post it. Do this by feeding coredump to external process via /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern