From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 29 19:35:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9946B14D07 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 19:35:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA04070; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 22:34:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <199903300334.WAA04070@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Archie Cobbs , paul@originative.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: Debug kernel by default? (was: Taking panic dumps (was: 3.1-S TABLE dies on 40+ connects (resolved))) References: <199903282321.PAA14589@bubba.whistle.com> <19990330123136.H413@lemis.com> In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 30 Mar 1999 12:31:36 +0930." <19990330123136.H413@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 22:34:48 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I think we can do both of these at the same time, as long as we leave > a solution for people who really don't have the extra 20 MB (you need > space for larger .o files as well). > > How about this: > > - make config assume the -g option by default. > - add a new option (-s) to config to generate stripped objects. > - add a target install.gdb to the Makefile. This target will install > the unstripped kernel for people who want to use ddb. > - modifiy the existing install target to make a stripped copy of the > kernel and to install it. > How about changing sysinstall to use a somewhat larger default size for the root file system? With disks as cheap as they are these days, why not size it at 100MB or so? Then you'll have a bit more room for debugging kernels. I've always found the default size sysinstall chooses too small for comfort, even when putting /tmp on a different file system. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message