Re: The stability crisis

Ralf Baechle (ralf@uni-koblenz.de)
Tue, 6 Jul 1999 02:37:30 +0200


On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 09:21:57AM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:

> Well IRIX boxes tend to have a PROM in which there is a file system
> and a disk driver, thus when the system goes totally boink they can
> escape to those and still do the core dump. That is pretty hard on
> todays PC hardware.

Nope, IRIX writes the kernel core itself ...

Aside, the PROMs are rather primitive.

> Other than that I still haven't found much more useful info in those
> monster dumps you get on commercial system than what the OOPS provides.

If the Oops is logged anywhere.

Ralf

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