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Date:      Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:16:32 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
To:        Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko <gaijin.k@gmail.com>, freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2/amd64 crashes on SMP under load
Message-ID:  <CE5FE268-CF7D-4A26-9E2F-6590CCACB73E@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090730170930.GA74245@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Jul 30, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:02:29AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 30, 2009, at 2:05 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>>> By the way, are these two FreeBSD docs up to date:
>>>
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/advanced.html#KERNEL-PANIC-TROUBLESHOOTING
>>>
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html
>>>
>>> In particular, it is still true that minidump is a default dump  
>>> type?
>>
>> ia64 doesn't yet have minidumps. In fact, changes to GDB that
>> happened a year ago or so broke the ability to read ia64 core
>> files. I plan on implementing minidumps after 8.0-RELEASE.
>
> you mean, even if I get a dump, I wouldn't be able to read it?

Correct.

The change that broke it is:
http://svn.FreeBSD.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=178670

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt@mac.com






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