2009/9/10 Ken Smith <kensm...@cse.buffalo.edu>: > On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 15:29 +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
>> This seems like a step backwards to me: crash dumps have been left >> enabled in 7.x and have proved very useful from the point of view of >> improved quality of received PRs. I'm not aware of any problems >> relating to leaving them enabled. >> >> I'd appreciate it if this decision was reconsidered. >> > > Unfortunately as I said before there is no "Right answer" for this one. No, but there is an "80% right" one, based on the question: did the change in 7 cause known problems for any significant number of users (or one of two big users - that should be enough). After all, if users were fine with crashdumps & symbols being enabled in 7, they should be find with them being enabled in 8. > If there is (a lot) more push-back on this we'll reconsider it. But the > AUTO setting is only appropriate for machines that are "actively being > watched over". In -stable branches we start to have people using it for > large data centers full of machines that are only "partially watched > over" at best as well as machines stuffed in phone closets in remote > locations, etc. Having the AUTO setting for situations like that can > mean increased time for a reboot to happen, there is extra risk of the > machine wedging and not rebooting at all (requiring manual intervention > to get it back up), there is risk of disk space issues, etc. _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
