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mergen3107 · 10-20-2024, 01:15 PM

Long story short:

1) To stop some logs, it is enough to add a new empty file called DISABLE_CORE_DUMP in the /mnt/us/ (visible root via USB). Heavy core dumps won't show up anymore. Only ones that show up are Indexer Dumps (a few tens of KBs) every now and then. Context: I also have blocked all logging, and indexer dumps says something like "this is a diff between files on device and cc.db" - I am pretty sure this is because there is a mismatch between cloud (which never sees any logs from my Kindle Scribe) and local files

2) To hard stop EVERYTHING, block /usr/bin/dump-stack . This will prevent ALL logs. Side effect: usbnet session is very laggy in between actions. Most probably because Kindle still tries to run dump-stack, but encounters wrong exit statuses.

In the end, I rolled back to 5.16.2.0.1 and plan to stay here for a long time.
hf versions seem to be much more chatty in terms of dumps and stuff.

P.S. Also, I just figured I have been missing out on this little gem of a GitHub page

and it works only on non-hf kindle due to browser support.
https://github.com/KindleModding/KWebBrew

10-20-2024, 01:15 PM	#5
mergen3107 Wizard Posts: 1,510 Karma: 5000046 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Cape Canaveral Device: Kindle Scribe	Long story short: 1) To stop some logs, it is enough to add a new empty file called DISABLE_CORE_DUMP in the /mnt/us/ (visible root via USB). Heavy core dumps won't show up anymore. Only ones that show up are Indexer Dumps (a few tens of KBs) every now and then. Context: I also have blocked all logging, and indexer dumps says something like "this is a diff between files on device and cc.db" - I am pretty sure this is because there is a mismatch between cloud (which never sees any logs from my Kindle Scribe) and local files 2) To hard stop EVERYTHING, block /usr/bin/dump-stack . This will prevent ALL logs. Side effect: usbnet session is very laggy in between actions. Most probably because Kindle still tries to run dump-stack, but encounters wrong exit statuses. In the end, I rolled back to 5.16.2.0.1 and plan to stay here for a long time. hf versions seem to be much more chatty in terms of dumps and stuff. P.S. Also, I just figured I have been missing out on this little gem of a GitHub page and it works only on non-hf kindle due to browser support. https://github.com/KindleModding/KWebBrew Last edited by mergen3107; 10-30-2024 at 04:12 PM.