Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Nov 2002 00:36:48 -0500 (EST) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | Re: What's left over. |
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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
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