On Wed, 7 May 2003 ragge@ludd.luth.se wrote:

> This shows that it is quite a gain in speed on some archs :-)
>
> As a result of this, I think there may be a reason to remove the
> kvm database alltogether, especially because it would need a bunch
> of extra massage anyway to update it if modules are loaded/unloaded;
> and fall back to the old "nlist" way of retreiving kernel symbols
> if /dev/ksyms is not in the kernel?

Just to be clear, the nlist method would work with core files?

Take care,

Bill