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Date:      Thu, 04 May 2000 17:00:35 -0500
From:      "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Debugging Kernel/System Crashes, can anyone help??
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.20000503221040.02051d40@207.227.119.2>
In-Reply-To: <20000504114013.E22025@freebie.lemis.com>
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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



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