Reference: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3703 Now that the reads are done correctly, they do so by word. This makes large core file dumping painfully slow. There are known optimizations that help speed up large reads. Need to implement.
Bug from FC-6: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234879
Closed with utilization of Statelessfile reads from /proc/$$/mem