Re: dump device

Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolabs.com)
Thu, 29 Jun 2000 17:01:19 -0600 (MDT)


Nilesh writes:
> Does Linux supports any kind of dump device ?
> When there is uncertain hang/crash can we take the memory dump to
> diagnose the problem ?

There is already such a utility written by SGI called the Kernel Crash Dump
utility. I've never used it, so I can't say what features it has, but at
least it's a good starting point. Check out:

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/lkcd/

Cheers, Andreas

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