topic Re: Saving system crash dump if needed.... in Operating System - HP-UX

Saving system crash dump if needed....

John R_3 — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 06:40:21 GMT

O Wise ones,

How long does it usually take to have the system save a crash dump at bootup sequence?

Our system a model 9000/800/N4000-55 has 8GB of mem.

It's busy for 30 minutes and I'm running out of fingernails. :)

Kind regards, John

Re: Saving system crash dump if needed....

RAC_1 — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 06:46:56 GMT

The answer is it depends. It depends on what is compression that you have enabled for it. (/etc/rc.config.d/crashconf & savecrash), The size of the dump image.

You can view the the size of it with crashconf -v

Anil

Re: Saving system crash dump if needed....

Pete Randall — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 06:47:30 GMT

See if you can borrow someone else's fingernails. I would give it up to an hour and if it's not done then, I would manually power cycle it - even earlier if you're not going to do anything with the dump file.

Pete

Re: Saving system crash dump if needed....

John R_3 — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 06:47:45 GMT

Nevermind. My webconsole hung up on me and the system was running just fine.

Sorry for the fuzz

Re: Saving system crash dump if needed....

Uday_S_Ankolekar — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 06:47:50 GMT

It depends... But if you don't want to save it then you can press esc key I guess. I would wait till it finishes dumping.

-USA..

Re: Saving system crash dump if needed....

John R_3 — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 06:49:23 GMT

My webconsole hung on me and the system was up and running

Re: Saving system crash dump if needed....

Fabio Ettore — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 06:50:37 GMT

Hi,

I really don't think it is possible to count a time average to save dump, it is not important the model. RAC already provided very good hints about what it can depend from.
Maybe someone can give you his experience, I never thought to take time to save dump.

Best regards,
Fabio