[SunHELP] Crash Dump

Peter L. Wargo sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Wed Nov 29 16:54:49 CST 2000


>    hardware errors that it can not recover. These errors could be CPU,
> memory, disks, etc...
>    Beside the E-cache bug, since this is a production system, I do not want
> to have it 
>    reboot by itself.
>    What is your recommendation ?

My thoughts are that unless you are in a HA cluster type of enviroment,
that it is *good* to have the system reboot.  Watchdog doesn't (by itself)
add any more unavailability, IMHO.

> >>Core dump is easy.  Savecore is enabled by default on sol 7 and up.
> >>Previous versions, look at /etc/init.d/sysetup.
> 
> >>_pete
> 
> 	Yes, I've done it. That's why it prevents the system from
> auto-booting.

Huh?  That's not controlled as part of savecore, at least as far as I
know...

-P





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