On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I assume you know about the "snooping" flag and deadman timer. This can be > useful in getting a dump when the system is "hard" hung (i.e., you may > or may not > have kmdb loaded, but you can't get in).
Recentely I've had a system that wouldn't come back even with the deadman turned on. > I think better is a flag that says that when the system panics, bypass > kmdb and go immediately > to the dump code. And I think this should be the default behaviour. I > mostly use kmdb > for analyzing hangs, not panics. When the system panics, you're > generally too late anyway, and I would > rather run mdb on the dump (so I have full access to the machine resources). Do you mean you so you don't have to type systemdump? Don't you like to look around before you take a dump? :-/ Maybe I am misunderstanding you. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
