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Cc: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: "stop scheduler on panic" for stable/[98]
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On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 8:03:44 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 
> I feel that I can not assess a balance between risks and benefits of merging the
> "stop scheduler on panic" changes to stable/9 and stable/8 (after 8.3 release).
> What is your impression/opinion/assessment?

We have merged it to 8 recently at work because crash dumps do not work for
us at all on 8 currently.  We don't have panics very often however, so it will
be a while before I will know if this really helped.

-- 
John Baldwin