Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:52:36 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Matt D. Robinson" <> | Subject | ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel Crash Dumps (LKCD) 2.0 Available |
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The 2.0 version of the Linux Kernel Crash Dumps (LKCD) project is now available -- this version applies to 2.3.99-pre9 kernels, and includes some of Stephen Tweedie's patches for kiobufs (since we need them).
LKCD provides systems with the ability to save a system crash dump when the kernel has a panic or exception, and saves the memory to your swap space, recovering it on reboot, and creating a crash dump report which can be sent to support personnel (or groups like 'lkml', if necessary).
Feel free to download our current patch from:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/lkcd/download/2.0
You can also look at and contribute to the source project on SourceForge. The project's CVS location is at:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/?cvsroot=lkcd
And as always, information about LKCD, including news, an FAQ, etc., can be found at:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/lkcd/
A few points to note:
- The x86 version works great, but we're still working on the Alpha and IA-64 ports. They're coming along, however ... keep reading the LKCD News page for updates. Thanks to Brian Hall for his help with the Alpha port.
- While you can build the vmdump code as a *module*, and it works, for now just build the vmdump code directly into the kernel -- the reason is because we still have to build the ability to perform stack traces when the code goes through a module. (And that will take some time to complete, as it's kind of ugly to do ...)
- We are no longer limited to SCSI devices, like we were with the 2.2 kernel version. We're going to try to backport the 2.3 changes into 2.2, so we have a universal version.
If you have any other questions, please send me an E-mail, or review the FAQ on the oss.sgi.com web site. Thanks.
--Matt
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