[dtrace-discuss] Diagnosing into server crash

[Andreas.Haas at Sun.COM]

Thanks to everyone for the replies!

Andreas

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Chip Bennett wrote:

> To use DTrace to analyze a crash dump, you need to have been running DTrace 
> when the system crashed.  Take a look at chapter 37, Postmortem Tracing, in 
> the Solaris Dynamic Tracing Guide.  The basic idea is that you can trace into 
> a single ring buffer (wraps-around), and then after the crash, find the 
> buffer and dump the trace output for whatever length ring buffer was 
> allocated.
>
> Chip
>
> Andreas.Haas at Sun.COM wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> can anyone point me to a document that descirbes how to trace into an OS 
>> crash under Solaris 10? My hope is to get target-oriented description to
>> figure out the system call and the process/thread that lead to the crash.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Andreas
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