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Subject: Re: Can't read core dump 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 00:41:04 -0700
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>What does it mean when I try a netstat/vmstat -M <core> and I get the
>messages
> 
>     #dmesg:  can't read IdlePTD
>
>What's this mean?

   It means that we don't support reading the stuff from crash dumps and we
haven't taken the code out yet.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project