diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index fe21942d..82c20503 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ testsBP/*/OBJ/*
 testsBP/*/*.a
 wally-pipelined/linux-testgen/linux-testvectors/*
 wally-pipelined/linux-testgen/nohup*
+wally-pipelined/linux-testgen/x*
 !wally-pipelined/linux-testgen/linux-testvectors/tvCopier.py
 !wally-pipelined/linux-testgen/linux-testvectors/tvLinker.sh
 wally-pipelined/regression/slack-notifier/slack-webhook-url.txt
diff --git a/wally-pipelined/linux-testgen/logAllBuildroot.sh b/wally-pipelined/linux-testgen/logAllBuildroot.sh
index d045ee98..073fc5a9 100755
--- a/wally-pipelined/linux-testgen/logAllBuildroot.sh
+++ b/wally-pipelined/linux-testgen/logAllBuildroot.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# Oftentimes this script runs so long you'll go to sleep.
+# But you don't want the script to die when your computer goes to sleep.
+# So consider invoking this with nohup (i.e. "nohup ./logAllBuildroot.sh")
+# You can run "tail -f nohup.out" to see what would've
+# outputted to the terminal if you didn't use nohup
+
 # =========== Debug the Process ========== 
 # Uncomment this version for GDB/QEMU debugging
 # - Opens up GDB interactively
@@ -15,6 +21,12 @@
 # - Logs parse_qemu.py's simulated gdb output to qemu_in_gdb_format.txt
 #cat qemu_output.txt | ./parse_qemu.py >qemu_in_gdb_format.txt
 #cat qemu_output.txt | ./parse_qemu.py | ./parse_gdb_output.py "/courses/e190ax/buildroot_boot/"
+# Uncomment this version in case you just want to have qemu_in_gdb_format.txt around
+# It is often helpful for general debugging
+(qemu-system-riscv64 -M virt -nographic -bios /courses/e190ax/qemu_sim/rv64_initrd/buildroot_experimental/output/images/fw_jump.elf -kernel /courses/e190ax/qemu_sim/rv64_initrd/buildroot_experimental/output/images/Image -append "root=/dev/vda ro" -initrd /courses/e190ax/qemu_sim/rv64_initrd/buildroot_experimental/output/images/rootfs.cpio -d nochain,cpu,in_asm -serial /dev/null -singlestep -s -S 2>&1 >/dev/null | ./parse_qemu.py >qemu_in_gdb_format.txt) & riscv64-unknown-elf-gdb -x gdbinit_qemulog
+
+# Split qemu_in_gdb_format.txt into chunks of 100,000 instructions for easier inspection
+#split -d -l 5600000 qemu_in_gdb_format.txt --verbose
 
 # Uncomment this version for parse_gdb_output.py debugging
 # - Uses qemu_in_gdb_format.txt
@@ -24,4 +36,4 @@
 # =========== Just Do the Thing ========== 
 # Uncomment this version for the whole thing 
 # - Logs info needed by buildroot testbench
-(qemu-system-riscv64 -M virt -nographic -bios /courses/e190ax/qemu_sim/rv64_initrd/buildroot_experimental/output/images/fw_jump.elf -kernel /courses/e190ax/qemu_sim/rv64_initrd/buildroot_experimental/output/images/Image -append "root=/dev/vda ro" -initrd /courses/e190ax/qemu_sim/rv64_initrd/buildroot_experimental/output/images/rootfs.cpio -d nochain,cpu,in_asm -serial /dev/null -singlestep -s -S 2>&1 >/dev/null | ./parse_qemu.py | ./parse_gdb_output.py "/courses/e190ax/buildroot_boot_new/") & riscv64-unknown-elf-gdb -x gdbinit_qemulog
+#(qemu-system-riscv64 -M virt -nographic -bios /courses/e190ax/qemu_sim/rv64_initrd/buildroot_experimental/output/images/fw_jump.elf -kernel /courses/e190ax/qemu_sim/rv64_initrd/buildroot_experimental/output/images/Image -append "root=/dev/vda ro" -initrd /courses/e190ax/qemu_sim/rv64_initrd/buildroot_experimental/output/images/rootfs.cpio -d nochain,cpu,in_asm -serial /dev/null -singlestep -s -S 2>&1 >/dev/null | ./parse_qemu.py | ./parse_gdb_output.py "/courses/e190ax/buildroot_boot_new/") & riscv64-unknown-elf-gdb -x gdbinit_qemulog