HP-UX Compressed Dump Release Notes

HP-UX Compressed Dump Release Notes
What’s in This Version
Chapter 1 7
Total pages on system: 4194304
Total pages included in dump: 328120
Dump compressed: ON
DEVICE OFFSET(kB) SIZE (kB) LOGICAL VOL. NAME
------------ ---------- ---------- ------------ -----------------
31:0x03a000 310112 4194304 64:0x000002 /dev/vg00/lvol2
----------
4194304
Turning compression option ON using crashconf, gives a hint to the system to use
compression while dumping. The system may choose to take uncompressed dump based on
the environment of the crash.
Compression can be turned OFF using the crashconf -c option as follows:
# crashconf -v -c off
CLASS PAGES INCLUDED IN DUMP DESCRIPTION
-------- ---------- ---------------- -----------------------------
UNUSED 3645411 no, by default unused pages
USERPG 7113 no, by default user process pages
BCACHE 210990 no, by default buffer cache pages
KCODE 2670 no, by default kernel code pages
USTACK 264 yes, by default user process stacks
FSDATA 116 yes, by default file system metadata
KDDATA 68736 yes, by default kernel dynamic data
KSDATA 259004 yes, by default kernel static data
Total pages on system: 4194304
Total pages included in dump: 328120
Dump compressed: OFF
DEVICE OFFSET(kB) SIZE (kB) LOGICAL VOL. NAME
------------ ---------- ---------- ------------ -----------------
31:0x03a000 310112 4194304 64:0x000002 /dev/vg00/lvol2
----------
4194304
If the compression option is turned OFF, then the system will not dump compressed even
when the environment of the crash is suitable to dump compressed.