Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 07 May 1999 17:09:09 +0200 | From | Manfred Spraul <> | Subject | Re: Oops assist... |
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BROWN Nick wrote: > > >IMHO, the swapfile is the best & portable solution: NT uses > >the swapfile, I've read the Solaris uses the swapfile, too. > > NT has several options when the machine crashes: > > - do/don't reboot > - do/don't make a dump (to the pagefile - full dump requires pagefile >= mem > + 11MB). You can specify a dump file name, but I think the pagefile > contents are copied there when the system reboots Yes. I remember that this took nearly 20 Minutes with 64 MB memory. (Long ago, probably a bug in that NT version)
> - do/don't write a record to the event log file > - do/don't overwrite an existing dump (hadn't finished analysing crash A > before crash B happened - ha !) > - (my favourite) do/don't send an alert to the system operator if the dump > file is so full that there is no room for more dumps AFAIK, you must have a swap file on the primary harddisk. If you don't have a swap file, then only "do/don't reboot" is possible.
Regards, Manfred
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