Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 20:15:50 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: glen@winternet.com (Glen Overby), hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. Message-ID: <199510010315.UAA05028@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Sep 95 15:03:56 PDT." <199509302203.PAA18818@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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>1) There is adamant opposition to a symbol resolution facility > in the kernel itself. There is? Certainly not from me. The only reservation I've ever raised about this is that the symbols consume about 100K of memory and on a 4MB machine, this is a lot. Personally, I'd really like to see the symbols in the kernel address space. This would make things like symbolic tracebacks possible in the standard non-DDB case. This would go a long way toward making it easier to troubleshoot kernel panics. How many times have you seen me say "do an nm /kernel | sort and tell me what function the IP is within"? Dozens, and I'm getting tired of saying it!. -DG
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