Re: How do you crash AIX 5.3?

From: Bob Booth - CITES (booth_at_UIUC.EDU)
Date: 07/27/05

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    Date:         Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:22:39 -0500
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 02:12:04PM +0100, Davies Sue wrote:
    > Sorry I wasn't very clear, I want to make the OS suddenly stop, like a halt
    > -q but in a less pleasant and organised fashion. It's part of a test on an
    > HACMP installation.

    'sysdumpstart' will do exactly what you want, however, 'halt -q' is not very
    organized, as all the kernel does is send a halt opcode to the processor(s).
    It could probably simulate a crash for you, and not take as much time for a
    system dump to complete.

    hth,

    bob

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