Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:48:59 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Gavin Atkinson <gavin@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r212964 - head/sys/kern Message-ID: <4C9B68DB.9010401@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201009230953.56201.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <201009211507.o8LF7iVv097676@svn.freebsd.org> <4C9A6EE6.5050301@freebsd.org> <20100922222441.00002f27@unknown> <201009230953.56201.jhb@freebsd.org>
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on 23/09/2010 16:53 John Baldwin said the following: > minidumps have made the time issue less of a concern on large-memory systems > (full dumps do indeed take a long time on modern systems). I think textdumps > are just as likely to fail as regular dumps though since they both use the > same code for writing out the dump, they just write different bits to the dump > area. Well, minidumps are not always very small. And there's still that issue of other CPUs still running during panic->dumping and thus (mini-)dump maps getting changed (larger) after dump size calculations which results in an aborted dump. -- Andriy Gapon
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