Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:53:58 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? Message-ID: <3DDD39D6.3040700@centtech.com> References: <20021118192332.L19853-100000@hub.org>
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Marc G. Fournier wrote: [..snip..] > > > I think one of the things that would really help, if at all possible, is a > more compreshensive 'how to debug a kernel' document ... whenever mine > crashes, first place I go is the handbook and grab as much as I know to > grab, but if that could somehow be extended? > > For instance, the one thing I never clued into until Matt showed me was > using ps/pstat against my vmcore to see how much swap was in use, and what > processes were running when she crashed ... > > Basically, the more informed we, the debuggers/testers, can be, the easier > job of it the developers, who can fix it, will have ... Great idea - can you write something up about this? This would really help the efforts of the testers.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Beware the fury of a patient man. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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