Date: Sat, 04 Oct 1997 02:47:26 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: dg@root.com Cc: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/4630: buffer_map might become corrupted Message-ID: <20894.875947646@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Sep 1997 12:14:58 PDT." <199709291914.MAA06285@implode.root.com>
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David Greenman wrote in message ID <199709291914.MAA06285@implode.root.com>: > >Isn't that just a (k)gdb script in a wrapper, run after savecore has done > >its thing? > > kgdb scripting is painfully slow, difficult to write, and not very > flexible. What I'd like to see is a cda that is built along with the kernel > so it's data structures are correct and it stays in sync with the kernel > sources. I'd also like the utility to be able to read the crash dump saved > in swap without having to copy it first to a file (since few people have > the space for large crash dump images). How about the wish-list item of saving only relevant parts of RAM to disk, rather than a complete image? I'm sure wcarchive doesn't have a .5gig swap partition it could dump to if it panics, and a lot of machines these days also don't have a single swap parition that is big enough to hold a full dump... Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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