Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 May 1997 14:13:20 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: Kernel Debugging Hardware |
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On Wed, 14 May 1997, Alan Cox wrote: > > What would be better is to make a real crashdumper for the kernel. > > Something akin to what Sun or FreeBSD has. > > > > Have a peep at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook263.html#588 > > to see how FreeBSD does it. > Have you ever had a SunOS box get somewhat scrambled and dump its memory > image over / - sometimes Id be happier with an external log.
Havent heard of any FreeBSD boxes stomping / though. So however they do it, it must be more robust than Sun.
For the terminally paranoid, perhaps crash dumps could be made over the parallel port to a machine configured to grab them.
-Dan
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