System Dumps and Dump Scripts

[jacks0n]

Hi Ppls,

I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of where I could find information about system dumps and dump scripts on HP-UX... or even better, help out with some information. What I'm specifically after is information as to where standard dump scripts are located on HP-UX and information about allocating sufficient space for a full system dump.
If anyone by chance has this information about Sun or AIX that would also help.

Best Regards,
Attila.

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

The attached link is to the System Administrators guide which has all the information on how to set up dump space.

http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90742/B2355-90742.html

HTH
-Michael

[Marcin Wicinski]

Hi Attila,

* the estimated amount of dump should be equal to your machine phisical memory plus some space for the system kernel - from expirience it's nice to estimete dump=1.5 x phisical_memory.

* scripts: /sbin/savecrash (on 11.0)

* conf: /etc/rc.config.d/savecrash (on 11.0)

good luck,