From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 19 22: 3: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67D3337B401 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 22:03:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-1.zoominternet.net (mail-1.zoominternet.net [63.67.120.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD77B43E97 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 22:02:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Received: (qmail 1131 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2002 05:02:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zbzoom.net) ([24.154.30.232]) (envelope-sender ) by mail-1.zoominternet.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Oct 2002 05:02:52 -0000 Message-ID: <3DB2399F.3060900@zbzoom.net> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 01:05:35 -0400 From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: behanna@zbzoom.net Organization: Western Pennsylvania Pizza Disposal Unit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.7-RELEASE crash [file system] References: <20021019130404.A25131-100000@edge.foundation.invalid> <001901c27798$d033df70$0301a8c0@prime> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Charles Swiger wrote: >From: "Andriy Gapon" > >>Unfortunately I didn't have a debug kernel and post-mortem one didn't >>match, so probably this is of little help in debugging. >> > >Why is FreeBSD configured not produce a crash dump by default? Would it be >useful if -STABLE was configured to produce crash dumps, and when a release >is frozen and tagged, the crash dump option gets toggled off as part of the >release cycle? > Reason #1 may be that some folks might not have enough space in /var to hold one or more crash dumps (in particular, a large server box with 4GB of RAM might easily run into this problem). Reason #2 might be that a crash dump isn't of much use without a kernel that has debugging symbols in it. -- Chris BeHanna chris@pennasoft.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message