Chapter 5. Crashing Your Own System
We’ve talked about what a system crash is. We’ve discussed how to use the UNIX savecore program to capture an image of memory when the system crashes. Shortly, we will discuss how to analyze the system crash dump savecore files.
At this point, it is only fair to show you a fun and educational way to quickly crash your own system on purpose. If you have savecore set up properly, you’ll have a set of files to experiment with during the following chapters.
Needless to say, crashing a system is not something you should do lightly. If your system happens to be a big database server or is being used by half of your department, forcing an unannounced crash will not make you very popular. Even if you are the only user ...
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