Re: Snapshot performances

[manu%netbsd.org@localhost (Emmanuel Dreyfus)]

Taylor R Campbell <campbell+netbsd-tech-kern%mumble.net@localhost> wrote:

> > Well, that requires to crash a mail server in busy hours on purpose. I
> > will collect if it happens again by accident.
> 
> Despite the confusing name, you can run crash(8) on a running system
> without interrupting it -- it lets you non-intrusively examine the
> kernel and get stack traces as if with ddb.

Sure, I know about crash(8), but my point is that producing the
problematic situation means crashing the machine: it gets so slow that
only a reboot from ddb can fix it.

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