Re: Debugging Kernel/System Crashes, can anyone help??

[Jeffrey J. Mountin]

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 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Systems/Network Administrator
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