Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:15:35 +0000 (UTC) From: Marcin Wisnicki <mwisnicki+freebsd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: www/chromium crashing whole system Message-ID: <ic1d57$ol9$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <20101113112447.GF2392@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20101113115900.GA14975@freebsd.org> <20101113122853.GG2392@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20101113123846.GA21390@freebsd.org> <20101113124146.GH2392@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20101113124758.GA23469@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1011132206380.12353@fledge.watson.org> <4CDF0E7F.3060406@freebsd.org> <ibsl25$23m$1@dough.gmane.org> <20101116224156.GA52556@freebsd.org> <20101117033520.GA95666@freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:35:20 +0000, Alexander Best wrote: > On Tue Nov 16 10, Alexander Best wrote: >> >> WOW! this is the first time i hear of such a concept. it seems great >> for people like me who are desktop users without any serial/firewire >> consoles or any additional debugging hardware. >> >> is there a way of trying this out somehow? personally i wouldn't need >> the memory dump to work in partitions. i'd simply blug in a blank usb >> stick and have the memory dump dd'ed onto it. i think adding partition >> awareness is not really needed. > > ok i read some more details and i think i figured out how to dump the > memory to a usb stick. question still remains however: will i be able to > use that memory snapshot in kgdb or gdb? > Probably not. I thought about it a bit more and realized that you will miss state of cpu registers which is rather important. How does debugging over firewire work if it only has access to host RAM ?
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