Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 07:38:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Debugging Kernel/System Crashes, can anyone help?? Message-ID: <20000506073852.E37507@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20000503221040.02051d40@207.227.119.2> References: <20000503185936.E72341@ethereal.net> <20000504095941.B18453@freebie.lemis.com> <200005040124.VAA55655@account.abs.net> <20000504111136.B22025@freebie.lemis.com> <20000503185936.E72341@ethereal.net> <20000504114013.E22025@freebie.lemis.com> <4.3.2.20000503221040.02051d40@207.227.119.2>
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On Thursday, 4 May 2000 at 17:00:35 -0500, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > At 11:40 AM 5/4/00 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> There's a separate issue about whether to build kernels with debug >> symbols by default. That takes a lot more space (30 MB as compared to >> about 8). But if you have a debug kernel, I don't see any reason to >> install a stripped version. > > Running the non-stripped kernel uses more memory No, this isn't correct, not with ELF. > and isn't there also a performance issue. No. > Also what is gained by running it, Disk space. > as long as you have the complimentary debug kernel in /var/crash (or > wherever) for the stripped boot kernel. It's the one that savecore saves, and there's more opportunity for using the wrong debug kernel for dump analysis. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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