Re: kern/38970: slow crashdump on amd64 machine

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR kern/38970; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: kern/38970: slow crashdump on amd64 machine
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 10:15:40 -0400

 On Jul 20,  1:23pm, gson%gson.org@localhost (Andreas Gustafsson) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: kern/38970: slow crashdump on amd64 machine
 
 | Christos Zoulas wrote:
 | > Are sparse dumps enabled and working?
 | 
 | In my case, sysctl machdep.sparse_dump prints 0.  I'm not sure why you
 | ask, though.  If it is just to eliminate sparse dumps as a cause, then
 | fine, but if you are suggesting I should enable sparse dumps, then I
 | don't see how that would help get the present bug fixed.
 
 No, but it might help you get a crash dump faster to determine the cause
 of the crash.
 
 christos