From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 30 20:16:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA29308 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 20:16:20 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA29301 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 20:16:13 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.50]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id UAA04542; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 20:14:38 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id UAA05028; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 20:15:51 -0700 Message-Id: <199510010315.UAA05028@corbin.Root.COM> To: Terry Lambert cc: glen@winternet.com (Glen Overby), hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 30 Sep 95 15:03:56 PDT." <199509302203.PAA18818@phaeton.artisoft.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 20:15:50 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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