Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Apr 2001 16:21:01 -0400 | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit |
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On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 03:43:52PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > I'm really sick of being buried in useless information. The signal > gets lost in the noise. It is easy to discard automatically generated > bug reports, and way too annoying to wade through the crud. > > When network connections hang, the console-tools package version > isn't likely to be of any use. When ramfs leaks memory, nobody needs > the content of /proc/pci. > > Sometimes the bit of crud are HUGE. Imagine the hardware info > for a 64-way SGI or Sun box with plenty of devices attached.
Disk space is 'free'. The information should be stored in a database where you can retrieve the information you need at will, while the back-end can statistically analyze the whole of the information looking for anomalies you would never have expected (like that network hang actually being caused by console-tools :) ). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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