lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2002]   [Nov]   [2]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: What's left over.
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> The thing is that Solaris, AIX, and ISC are written by commercial
> companies, they realize that customers need to be able to debug systems
> which don't have a screen, a serial printer, etc. They do have disk.
>
> I was hoping Alan would push Redhat to put this in their Linux so we
> could resolve some of the ongoing problems which don't write an oops to a
> log, but I guess none of the developers has to actually support production
> servers and find out why they crash.

Perhaps i'm being grossly naive here, but none of these presumably x86
productions servers don't have a serial port? Not even PCI/ISA slots to
add one? Serial would catch most of your oopsen anyway, and if you were
borked enough that serial couldn't get the entire output, i somehow doubt
dumping to disk could manage. And no i don't see anything wrong nor
consider it studly to use oopses only for debugging...

Zwane

--
function.linuxpower.ca

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:30    [W:0.190 / U:0.688 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site