[PLUG] How do I debug Linux crash

[Mel Andres]

Vincent Yau wrote:

>
>>>
>> Perhaps you ran out of memory or swap?
>>
>
> I did consider that possibility but I have 1GB of RAM and 2GB of 
> swap.  Not so
> sure what is the conventional amount but I do consider those to be
> quite an ample amount.  At the time of both crash, the only
> 2 major events going on was cdrecord and Oracle.  I can understand
> Oracle can demand a lot of memory and swap but cdrecord
> should not be (I think).  And Oracle was running for 2 months just fine.
> And it has been since last Thursday when I stopped burning CD.
>
> So I am not so sure.
>
> --Vincent
>
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If you are able to re-create the crash at will, then I'd try using top, 
or monitor at the time. You might also try hardware diagnostics.

  Mel