Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 11:37:39 -0700 From: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> To: jhb@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: savcore dump names? Message-ID: <200205021837.LAA21572@windsor.research.att.com>
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Other useful pieces of functionality that savecore lost:
- The ability to not save a dump if:
- It would completely fill up the disk (and warn if it would cause disk
usage to go above 100%)
- It would exceed the administrator's configured free space (i.e.
/var/crash/minfree)
- Logging to syslog; errors and messages from the new savecore
are likely to get lost. I liked having things like
Feb 11 23:19:45 stash savecore: reboot after panic: bremfree: bp 0xc302523c not locked
Feb 11 23:19:46 stash savecore: no dump, not enough free space on device (86040 available, need 102328)
in /var/log/messages.
There was a patch to restore the "vmcore.N" functionality posted to
-current on April 18th, and a couple of followups. I haven't tried it
yet since the other two lost features are much more important to me.
Bill
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