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To: "Rath, Egon" <Egon.Rath@gespag.at>
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Subject: Re: How to crash FreeBSD for educational purposes?
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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:26:40 +0900
From: Takanori Watanabe <takawata@axe-inc.co.jp>
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In message <EB808F8B7354D311AE3200508B319CC7CE7F24@OOELKHCO12>, "Rath, Egon" wrote:
>Hi there!
>
>I am currently playing around with analyzing crash dumps on FreeBSD.
>Are there any ways to crash the system to get a dump? For example,

Check ddb(4). Use panic subcommand.

>Or can i force the system to write the current memory content to the
>dump-device without crashing the whole system?

No, as far as I know.

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