On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 13:07 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 19:39 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> On 12/13/2011 03:26 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > >> > On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:57:54 -0500 > >> > Genes MailLists<lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > > >> >> > >> >> I just had the lovely experience of abrt trying to be helpful - a GUI > >> >> crash - and wanting to download 1.2 GB of debuginfo files including > >> >> things it quite obviously (to a human) does not need. > >> > > >> > It's not bright in some cases. Just tell it not to. The newest version of > >> > abrt will upload dumps to a server to crunch instead which is a lot more > >> > sociable. > >> > >> Which file sizes are you talking about? > >> > >> If these files are getting too big, users with, say GSM or low-bandwidth > >> upstream connections may disagree. > >> > >> At least around here, it's common that a home user's DSL or cable > >> connection's upstream bandwidth is a magnitude smaller than his > >> downstream bandwidth. > > > > I would expect that in both cases abrt is still uploading the dump, > > except that in the local case it's also uploading symbols, so the upload > > is larger. Or is this wrong? > > When not using the retrace server, abrt usually just uploads the text > backtrace, not the coredump. (I believe you can instruct it to do so, > but it doesn't do so by default and I have never needed to.) When > using the retrace server, abrt anonymously uploads the coredump to the > retrace server, creates a text backtrace, and sends that back to your > computer, whereupon you can submit the text backtrace to bugzilla or > do whatever else you want to with it. > > In my experience, the coredump being uploaded is several orders of > magnitude smaller than the debuginfo packages I'd need to download to > perform a backtrace locally, so it still saves me time even though my > download speed is 3x faster than my upload speed. OK, good to know. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
