Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 20:51:52 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/4630: buffer_map might become corrupted Message-ID: <199709300351.UAA09399@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Sep 1997 22:17:41 %2B0200." <1391.875564261@critter.freebsd.dk>
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>In message <199709291914.MAA06285@implode.root.com>, David Greenman writes: >>>Isn't that just a (k)gdb script in a wrapper, run after savecore has done >>>its thing? >> >> kgdb scripting is painfully slow, difficult to write, and not very >>flexible. What I'd like to see is a cda that is built along with the kernel >>so it's data structures are correct and it stays in sync with the kernel >>sources. I'd also like the utility to be able to read the crash dump saved >>in swap without having to copy it first to a file (since few people have >>the space for large crash dump images). > >maybe make a "dump-light" thing ? >Instead of dumping all the stuff, it merely prints a traceback + various >other info and stores that as the crashdump ? That's what I meant if it wasn't clear - yes, you'd only save the summary. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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