From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Oct 4 01:36:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA06614 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 01:36:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (root@mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA06609 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 01:36:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id CAA11440; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 02:47:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id CAA20896; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 02:47:26 -0400 (EDT) To: dg@root.com cc: Bob Bishop , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: kern/4630: buffer_map might become corrupted In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 29 Sep 1997 12:14:58 PDT." <199709291914.MAA06285@implode.root.com> Date: Sat, 04 Oct 1997 02:47:26 -0400 Message-ID: <20894.875947646@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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