From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chuck Ebbert Subject: Re: [2/3] 2.6.22-rc2: known regressions v2 Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 13:07:10 -0400 Message-ID: <465717BE.6070102@redhat.com> References: <46558708.2040803@googlemail.com> <46559B54.80106@googlemail.com> <20070524193740.GA6787@elte.hu> <20070525101105.GA9268@elte.hu> <4656CE39.8050800@netunix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-pm-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: linux-pm-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Cherwin R. Nooitmeer" , Kristian H?gsberg , Mikael Pettersson , Pavel Machek , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Alan Cox , linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, Christoph Lameter , Robert de Rooy , Tejun Heo , Michal Piotrowski , linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, Marcus Better , Ingo Molnar , Greg Kroah-Hartman , LKML , Stefan Richter , Chris Newport , Andrew Morton List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org On 05/25/2007 12:45 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Yes, in a controlled environment, dumping the whole memory image to disk > may be the right thing to do. BUT: in a controlled environment, you'll > never get the kind of usage that Linux gets. Why do you think Linux (and > Windows, for that matter) took away a lot of the market from traditional > UNIX? > Windows can dump memory to the swap file on crash. Default is a "minidump" IIRC but you can set it to dump all memory (or none.)