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Linux Coredumps Via Sockets Can Be Much Smaller Now With Sparse Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:11

Added to the Linux kernel last year was Coredump support via Unix domain sockets as an alternative to the pipe-based Coredumps. With code now merged for Linux 7.4, the core dumps via sockets has the potential of being much smaller thanks to sparse support. In extreme cases they can be 1% of the size without sparse support...