On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Martin Pitt wrote: > Asheesh, that would be possible, but the mere process of grabbing, > compressing, and writing a huge core dump on a machine with little > memory and/or slow CPU is a pain.
Maybe don't compress it, but write it raw to disk, and compress it at send time, at the rate of the network connection (therefore it won't be a CPU hog). Alternately you could use LZOP compression at any time (even before send) if you wanted; it's extremely fast and probably would give you adequate compression ratios for these sorts of data. Does apport use gzip or bzip2 now? If so, LZOP would be a huge CPU time savings. > It is not fully decided yet whether we retain automatic crash > detection/reporting in the final release, but if we do, then we should > rather err on the side of not making the user even more angry after a > crash. I understand that. I'm a big proponent of crash reporting, I just want it to work as well as it can! (-: It looks like the retracing has been a help to Ubuntu developers, and I'm all for that. -- Asheesh. -- You will gain money by a speculation or lottery. -- Crash information collection depletes resources, clogs up and crashes system https://launchpad.net/bugs/71560 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
