Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 01:05:35 -0400 From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.7-RELEASE crash [file system] Message-ID: <3DB2399F.3060900@zbzoom.net> References: <20021019130404.A25131-100000@edge.foundation.invalid> <001901c27798$d033df70$0301a8c0@prime>
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Charles Swiger wrote:
>From: "Andriy Gapon" <agapon@excite.com>
>
>>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
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