Richard Hector said: > Other unixes seem to manage to dump to the swap partition - is there some > significant difference that make this impractical/more dangerous for > Linux?
even better, I've had my solaris boxes able to panic and dump their "oops" messages to a syslog server before rebooting! Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa unix: WARNING: [AFT1] Bus Error on System Bus in privileged mode from CPU0 Data access at TL=0, errID 0x0018853e.2be5a938 Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa 0x00000000.84000000<PRIV,BERR> AFAR 0x000001fe.02000400 Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa 0x0000(Score 05) AFSR.ETS 0x00 Fault_PC 0x1025b434 Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa 0x0000 UDBH.ESYND 0x00 UDBL 0x0000 UDBL.ESYND 0x00 Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa unix: panic[cpu0]/thread=2a100033d60: Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa unix: [AFT1] errID 0x0018853e.2be5a938 BERR Error(s) Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa previous message(s) for details Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa unix: Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa unix: syncing file systems... Mar 26 11:18:40 nis-wa unix: panic[cpu0]/thread=2a100057d60: Mar 26 11:18:40 nis-wa unix: panic sync timeout Mar 26 11:18:40 nis-wa unix: Mar 26 11:18:41 nis-wa unix: dumping to /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0, offset 1822752768 Mar 26 11:20:26 nis-wa unix: 100% done: 11732 pages dumped, compression ratio 3.08, Mar 26 11:20:27 nis-wa unix: dump succeeded Mar 26 11:22:18 nis-wa unix: SunOS Release 5.7 Version Generic_106541-18 64-bit [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0] Mar 26 11:22:18 nis-wa unix: Copyright (c) 1983-1999, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa unix: WARNING: [AFT1] Bus Error on System Bus in privileged mode from CPU0 Data access at TL=0, errID 0x0018853e.2be5a938 Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa 0x00000000.84000000<PRIV,BERR> AFAR 0x000001fe.02000400 Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa 0x0000(Score 05) AFSR.ETS 0x00 Fault_PC 0x1025b434 Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa 0x0000 UDBH.ESYND 0x00 UDBL 0x0000 UDBL.ESYND 0x00 Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa unix: panic[cpu0]/thread=2a100033d60: Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa unix: [AFT1] errID 0x0018853e.2be5a938 BERR Error(s) Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa previous message(s) for details Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa unix: Mar 26 11:18:20 nis-wa unix: syncing file systems... Mar 26 11:18:40 nis-wa unix: panic[cpu0]/thread=2a100057d60: Mar 26 11:18:40 nis-wa unix: panic sync timeout Mar 26 11:18:40 nis-wa unix: Mar 26 11:18:41 nis-wa unix: dumping to /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0, offset 1822752768 Mar 26 11:20:26 nis-wa unix: 100% done: 11732 pages dumped, compression ratio 3.08, Mar 26 11:20:27 nis-wa unix: dump succeeded Mar 26 11:22:18 nis-wa unix: SunOS Release 5.7 Version Generic_106541-18 64-bit [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0] oh how I WISH linux could manage that ...it would be so helpful nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
