Am 16.04.2014 22:06, schrieb Tollef Fog Heen: > ]] Michael Biebl > >> I remember that we had a few issues in the past. One being that the >> journal file was blown up incredibly causing important log data to be >> "rotated away" > > We might want to make it configurable whether to use it or not, and it > sounds like the journal might want to grow support for «blobs» that can > be handled slightly differently than normal log entries. > >> Another one, that it could slow down the system considerably if lots of >> coredumps were triggered. E.g. I noticed that when running the glib test >> suite which triggered the coredump handler quite often. > > Sounds like those shouldn't dump core and just use prctl to make sure > this happens, then? > >> I'm a bit reluctant because of this and we should make sure to not cause >> any regressions when enabling this feature. > > Absolutely, but it should be available for people who want to use it, > rather than not compiled as is the case today. >
With the recent upstream changes [1], I think we can reconsider enabling the coredump feature. This would require v215 (to be released). Michael [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-June/020357.html -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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