Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.
Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.
Examine a crash dump by using the mdb utility.
# /usr/bin/mdb [-k] crashdump-file |
Specifies kernel debugging mode by assuming the file is an operating system crash dump file.
Specifies the operating system crash dump file.
Display crash status information.
# /usr/bin/mdb file-name > ::status . . . > ::system . . . |
The following example shows sample output from the mdb utility, which includes system information and identifies the tunables that are set in this system's /etc/system file.
# /usr/bin/mdb -k unix.0 Loading modules: [ unix krtld genunix ip nfs ipc ptm ] > ::status debugging crash dump /dev/mem (64-bit) from ozlo operating system: 5.10 Generic (sun4u) > ::system set ufs_ninode=0x9c40 [0t40000] set ncsize=0x4e20 [0t20000] set pt_cnt=0x400 [0t1024] |