unable to make a crashdump
Brian Fundakowski Feldman
green at freebsd.org
Thu Jun 24 13:06:02 PDT 2004
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 07:58:25AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>
> Claus Guttesen writes:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm trying to get a crashdump from my kernel when it
> > panics. I have the following in my kernel:
> >
> > makeoptions DEBUG=-g
> > options DDB, DDB_UNATTENDED
>
> You may also want to add DDB_TRACE. This gets a stack
> trace on console regardless of a crashdump's success.
> You may have to jot it down by hand, but in many cases its enough
> to characterize the panic enough for a meaningful problem report.
>
> <...>
>
> > syncing bugger 3795
> >
> > And then it hangs. Swap is 2 GB, RAM is 1 GB.
> >
>
>
> Sync'ing on panic nearly always locks my machines up too.
> When I turn this off (sysctl kern.sync_on_panic=0), then
> I reliably get dumps.
>
> Is anybody able to reliably get dumps with kern.sync_on_panic enabled?
> Maybe it works on SCSI boxes (all of my crashboxes are IDE)...
I don't have SCSI, but it certainly doesn't work for me. I have no idea
why it's the default when it screws over so many people (and how is it
going to work if the filesystem code panics?)
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