Re: [2/3] 2.6.22-rc2: known regressions v2
Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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* Chris Newport <[email protected]> wrote: > There is a fundamental problem in getting a decent log to debug a > crashed kernel. Maybe we should take a hint from Solaris. If the > kernel crashes Solaris dumps core to swap and sets a flag. At the next > boot this image is copied to /var/adm/crashdump where it is preserved > for future debugging. Obviously swap needs to be larger than core, but > this is usually the case. we've got kdump, but it's not usually enabled by default by distros. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html