From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2156 invoked by alias); 14 Jan 2004 14:56:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 2144 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2004 14:56:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp6.mindspring.com) (207.69.200.110) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 14 Jan 2004 14:56:40 -0000 Received: from user-119a90a.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.36.10] helo=berman.michael-chastain.com) by smtp6.mindspring.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AgmRi-00033I-00; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 09:56:38 -0500 Received: by berman.michael-chastain.com (Postfix, from userid 502) id 9034A4B104; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 09:57:01 -0500 (EST) To: ac131313@redhat.com, mec.gnu@mindspring.com Subject: Re: [patch/rfc/testsuite] Test GDB on not-so-little core files Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <20040114145701.9034A4B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:56:00 -0000 From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain) X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00368.txt.bz2 > testcase /house/chastain/gdb/s1/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/bigcore.exp completed in 183 seconds > testcase src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/bigcore.exp completed in 4 seconds Figures prove: Linux dumps core faster! :) Part of the difference is that I'm using an NFS file system. But a lot of it may be sparse file support in Linux. I can't comment on the program itself right now, maybe later. Michael C