From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8484 invoked by alias); 20 Jan 2004 22:02:21 -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 8440 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2004 22:02:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.129.200.20) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Jan 2004 22:02:20 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05FF22B8F; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:02:18 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <400DA569.3080708@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 22:02:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030820 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Cc: ac131313@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch/rfc/testsuite] Test GDB on not-so-little core files References: <20040114145701.9034A4B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00568.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. BTW, Michael, any thoughts on how to fail this on systems that can't efficiently dump a 3g core file? Skip the test I guess, but with which mechanism? untested? Andrew