I'm going through all the internal changes my current employer has made, categorizing them into "proprietary" and "can feed back to FreeBSD".
I will probably send out emails like this several times seeking feedback on whether a particular patch is considered useful or not.. these are verse 8.0 at the moment. (this is part of our effort to upgrade) My first candidates are: -----internal commit message---- Add support for dumping kernel dumps in addition to text dumps for kernel panics. Add a new version of savecore to the tree, which knows how to retrieve and save both dumps. Control the new dump behavior via the debug.kerneldump_requested sysctl - disabling this wil go back to the old text dump-only behavior. ------ part 2 ----- Have savecore be more optimistic about saving compressed cores - always try, and only bail if we actually run out of space. The pessimistic "only try saving if we've got enough free space to handle the entire dump uncompressed" made it too easy for us to run out of space on our /var/crash partition ------- Julian _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
