We have been experiencing some weird problems in our DB2/UDB linux guest and we think that creating memory dumps when the problem is occuring may help shed some light on the problem (i.e. trying to figure out what sql queries were executing at the time of the problem).. I have found reference in google to using the lkcd package to do this but it appears that I need to patch the linux kernel to enable these features. Is there any other way to get a memory dump on request (preferably non disruptive, but I know I can't have everything) that doesn't require a special kernel build. This is a production image, so we try to stay on SuSE supplied code as much as is humanly possible. (SLES7 patchcd1 + maintenance) . I thought maybe I could do something with the /proc/kcore file or something but wasn't sure what to do with it.
Thanks in advance! Jeremy ----------------------------------- Jeremy Warren Sr. Systems Programmer KB Toy Stores mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@kbtoys.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
