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

[Greg Lehey]

On Thursday,  4 May 2000 at 17:00:35 -0500, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:
> 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 

No, this isn't correct, not with ELF.

> and isn't there also a performance issue.

No.

> Also what is gained by running it,

Disk space.

> as long as you have the complimentary debug kernel in /var/crash (or
> wherever) for the stripped boot kernel.

It's the one that savecore saves, and there's more opportunity for
using the wrong debug kernel for dump analysis.

Greg
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