force panic of remote server ... possible?
Marc G. Fournier
scrappy at hub.org
Mon Jun 26 15:13:14 UTC 2006
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 08:55 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> For the server that I'm fighting with right now, where Dmitry pointed out
>> that it looks like a deadlock issue ... I have dumpdev/savecore enabled,
>> is there some way of forcing it to panic when I know I actually have the
>> deadlock, so that it will dump a core?
>
> You cen enter the debugger by setting the (badly names) debug.kdb.enter
> sysctl to 1, although I can't guarantee that'll trigger a dump and
> reboot. Do you have a serial console?
Unfortunately, no ... that's why we're moving to using HP servers, so that
we have the proper tools in place to deal with things more effectively
remotely ...
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