On 19/10/15 23:11 Nick Holland wrote: > ... or ... > > you can look at the big picture and realize... > 1) you probably aren't a developer. > 2) you probably haven't seen a core dump.
That's all very nice, but sometimes you don't get to pick your battles, they come and pick you. > and thus, I'll suggest you just don't worry about it. IF you manage to > find a way to panic your machine, drop the memory waaaay down to 2G or > so, reproduce it and worry about a 2G core dump. Yes, if the bugger is easy to reprduce thats fine. Some are. Some are not. > And -- even if you do have a system panic, very often developers can > make sense out of what went wrong from the output of the debugger's > trace and ps commands, rather than having to dig through an entire core > dump. This is always what they ask for FIRST. Exactly. So how do you extract this information from a modern laptop without serial? tilo