Anyone tried SystemTap with the latest RHEL5 Beta refresh

David Wilder dwilder@us.ibm.com
Wed Nov 1 18:27:00 GMT 2006


Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:

>Hi -
>
>On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 10:41:56AM -0800, David Wilder wrote:
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>>[...]  Why not package the debuginfo "vmlinux" with the kernel rpm?
>>[...]  ure this will increase the size of the kernel package by
>>about 40Meg, but the full debug info package is closer to 150Meg.
>>    
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>Don't forget about debug information for the modules.  For a random
>FC5 kernel, that adds another 300MB (uncompressed).
>
>- FChE
>  
>
Frank,  do you agree that stap is still useful without the debug info 
modules?

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David Wilder
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