Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:50:39 +0200 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: [Fwd: What do people think about not installing a stripped /kernel ?] Message-ID: <200410211150.44533.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <200410202129.i9KLTmTK045310@apollo.backplane.com> References: <41767CF1.2020005@FreeBSD.org> <4176D21F.3060108@elischer.org> <200410202129.i9KLTmTK045310@apollo.backplane.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wednesday, 20. October 2004 23:29, Matthew Dillon wrote: > In fact, we enable core dumps in our installs now and once we fix up > /var/crash's size (for new installs), even total newbies will be able to > provide useful cores to us. It's probably a good idea for dragonfly to try and get backtraces from kernel panics from as many joe-e.-adoppters as possible - new project, many experiments, not much of real world deployment yet, etc, etc. However, do we really need this on FreeBSD? Is the project in that bad a shape and/or do developers have so few time to spare these days for reproducing crashes now? How many mails per day about kernel panics where people have no clue about how to get a stack trace are coming in on the -current mailing list daily? I don't see that many. Better invest the time and some additional disk-space into (running) more regression testing tools. JMTC. -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.9.11 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBd4Z0Xhc68WspdLARAgGVAKCdNytjvJ4ZDSCBK88DKePKhcBlNwCgjqLD ZmEbBsqq2tZUXJ0xaAzQvZI= =fhTy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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