From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 5 11:33: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peak.mountin.net (peak.mountin.net [207.227.119.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2173C37B89F; Fri, 5 May 2000 11:32:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by peak.mountin.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA10422; Fri, 5 May 2000 13:32:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: from dial-73.max1.wa.cyberlynk.net(207.227.118.73) by peak.mountin.net via smap (V1.3) id sma010420; Fri May 5 13:32:29 2000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.20000503221040.02051d40@207.227.119.2> X-Sender: jeff-ml@207.227.119.2 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 17:00:35 -0500 To: Greg Lehey From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Debugging Kernel/System Crashes, can anyone help?? Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000504114013.E22025@freebie.lemis.com> References: <20000503185936.E72341@ethereal.net> <20000504095941.B18453@freebie.lemis.com> <200005040124.VAA55655@account.abs.net> <20000504111136.B22025@freebie.lemis.com> <20000503185936.E72341@ethereal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:40 AM 5/4/00 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >There's a separate issue about whether to build kernels with debug >symbols by default. That takes a lot more space (30 MB as compared to >about 8). But if you have a debug kernel, I don't see any reason to >install a stripped version. Running the non-stripped kernel uses more memory and isn't there also a performance issue. Also what is gained by running it, as long as you have the complimentary debug kernel in /var/crash (or wherever) for the stripped boot kernel. Pretty sure past discussions say nothing is gained, but some is lost by running kernel.debug rather than the stripped kernel. Maybe I missed something. I do agree with building, but not installing, a debug kernel. Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message