Re: Remote processing of core dump [message #44610 is a reply to message #44432] |
Wed, 07 December 2011 15:32  |
Dave Anderson
Messages: 1 Registered: December 2011
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----- Original Message -----
> Hi Dave,
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> could you please advise is it possible to process core dump remotely?
No, not any more.
Actually I did implement that capability several years ago, where you
could build a remote "crashd" daemon that you could connect to in order
to access dumpfiles or /dev/mem on a remote system. But it languished due
to lack of interest and the preference/speed-superiority of using NFS,
and so it has long since been deprecated. The code still sits there in
the sources, in remote.c.
Dave
> Currently for investigation of kernel crashes on customer nodes I
> need either download coredump to local node or upload debug symbols
> to remote node. This may not be quite convenient for various
> reasons.
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> Is it possible to use gdbserver-like functionality with crash?
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> IMHO it would be great to start crash utility locally, with debug
> symbols but without core dump file, and then connect to gdbserver on
> remote node attached to core dump file.
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> Thank you,
> Vasily Averin
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