Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 00:57:04 -0400 From: "Ben Goodwin" <ben@hamsterville.ultranet.com> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, "Charlie Root" <root@numfour.angelo.edu> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Debug kernels (was: kernel config) Message-ID: <01e701bf146e$3a90cef0$6a477392@dsg.hamsterville.ultranet.com> References: <199910111956.OAA00510@numfour.angelo.edu> <19991012131733.R78191@freebie.lemis.com>
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[snip] > I recommend to keep the debug symbols because in the unlikely event of > a panic, you'll need this information to analyse the problem. Debug > kernels are no slower than normal kernels; they just contain more > information about the sources. [snip] Hrm? From http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kerneldebug.html When the kernel has been built make a copy of it, say kernel.debug, and then run strip -g on the original. Install the original as normal. You may also install the unstripped kernel, but symbol table lookup time for some programs will drastically increase, and since the whole kernel is loaded entirely at boot time and cannot be swapped out later, several megabytes of physical memory will be wasted. Who's right? :-) -=| Ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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