I've found netdump, or diskdump to be useful and easy to setup, though this is only supported by Red Hat kernels.
- Kent On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca>wrote: > > i'm going to leech off of the collective intelligence of this list > for a few minutes. toward the end of a 1-day kernel course i'm > designing, i want to *very* briefly present some kernel debugging > techniques. given the limited time i'm going to have, i can't see > having more than about 20 or 30 minutes for this, so i can't possibly > get into fancy debugging, such as with kgdb, or anything that requires > a kernel config and reboot. so that doesn't leave me a lot of > options. > > i figure the best i can do is talk about SysRq, a number of the > kernel config options that people *could* turn on (under "Kernel > Hacking"), and possibly mounting the debugfs to get access to any > portions of the kernel that bothered to use it. beyond that, i'm > not sure what else could be crammed in there but i'm open to > suggestions. thanks. > > rday > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA > > Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. > > Web page: http://crashcourse.ca > Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > ======================================================================== > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecar...@nl.linux.org > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > >
