On Sun, 4 Apr 2010, Jon Stanley wrote: > So I'd like to put together an action plan to deal with the koji01 > reboot issues. Right now, we're not capturing crash dumps on this > machine (or any other, but I'm not sure there's value in doing so > unless we have an active, systemic problem like we're facing here) - > not saying that there'd be any *to* capture, but there probably are. > I'd like to setup kdump on this machine after the beta freeze is over, > but I'd like buyin from other people before doing it. Here's what I'd > propose: > > 1) Present another LV from bxen02 to koji01 and mount it at /var/crash > (the rootfs on koji01 is only 10GB, and we'd need more for a crash > dump or two - I'd say 20GB would be sufficient to hold two crashes, > since it's an 8GB domain). It looks like VolGroup01 where koji01 lives > has about 80G free. > 2) Install kexec-tools and configure appropriately (includes adding > crashkernel=128M@16M to grub.conf) > 3) Reboot machine, and wait for it to crash again. > 4) Analyze the (hopefully) resulting crash dumps :) > 5) Profit! > > Any objections? I think this is fine, you planning on doing it before or after the freeze? -Mike _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
