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Date:      Mon, 29 Sep 1997 08:48:53 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Come on guys...
Message-ID:  <19970929084853.BL18523@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <18132.875437285@critter.freebsd.dk>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Sep 28, 1997 11:01:25 %2B0200
References:  <18132.875437285@critter.freebsd.dk>

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As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> 4.  Recompile, from scratch, your kernel with DDB in it.  (For extra
>     points: use "config -g" and do not strip your kernel before booting)

Warning: do not do this unless you've got at least 16 MB (preferrably
32 MB) of RAM.  Doing this on an 8 MB machine won't get you very far
at all, probably not even into the main() of the kernel.

In these cases, you can however install a strip -d'ed kernel, but keep
the -g kernel around to analyze a kernel core dump with gdb -k.

See also: the section about kernel debugging in the handbook
(file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/kerneldebug.html or
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kerneldebug.html -- hope i've got this
right.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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