"Chris G. Demetriou" writes:
> > The problem is that if your machine crashes and you don't have another 
> > machine attached to it, ddb is your only hope. cgd thinks this isn't
> > an issue, but for me, that is the usual case by a big margin.
> 
> Run stable software/hardware that only crashes Infrequently on your
> server machine.  If you can't do that, you're probably trying to run
> the wrong OS on your server machine.

You see, sometimes, once in a great while, I get panics when doing
development and I don't necessarily have three machines around. As a
good developer, I'd like to track them down, but your advice
apparently is that I should run Solaris or NT instead.

> Just about the only time i can think of people regularly wanting to
> use DDB is if they _have_ to debug something 'live' on a laptop while
> travelling (not a situation you really want to be in 8-)

But somehow, that does happen to me a lot. I suppose I should stop
performing stunts like helping to port drivers while at IETF meetings.

I also have a PC that has trouble during boot, for which DDB is the
only tool I can use because I can't force a core dump.

"Better tools are better."

Perry