- Paperback: 496 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (19 May 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0131493868
- ISBN-13: 978-0131493865
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 17.8 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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For systems and network administrators and technical support engineers responsible for maintaining UNIX computer systems and networks.
A first aid guide for UNIX system and network administrators, this book provides quick solutions to a variety of UNIX system problems. It discusses in detail UNIX system panics, crashes and hangs, their causes, what to do when they occur, how to collect information about them, how to analyze that information, and how to get the problem resolved.
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Format:Paperback
This book is essential reading if you are interested in analysing crash dumps.
It's a little out of date but if you combine it with something like the "Solaris modular debugger guide", which is a download
and the Solaris Internals series.
Solaris Internals: Solaris 10 and Open Solaris Kernel Architecture
Solaris Performance and Tools: DTrace and MDB Techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris
You too can become a jaded software realist! 10/10 deserves a lot more credit than it gets.
It's a little out of date but if you combine it with something like the "Solaris modular debugger guide", which is a download
and the Solaris Internals series.
Solaris Internals: Solaris 10 and Open Solaris Kernel Architecture
Solaris Performance and Tools: DTrace and MDB Techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris
You too can become a jaded software realist! 10/10 deserves a lot more credit than it gets.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Everyone who ever wanted to analyze some "core" files should read this book first . I supose it will be helpfull for everyone who is not Lusered Admini. RTFM
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Exelent book for the kernel module programmer
15 Dec 1998
Format:Paperback
A very good text with three parts. The first is about using adb, and it's full of examples and exercises. After reading it you will see the reason this old tool is still heavily used and will be able to use it yourself.
The second is an overview of the internal structure of UNIX in general with many details on Solaris, that you won't find anywhere else. It's an enlightning view of the inner design of Solaris.
The third part is a case history of some crash dumps analysis and what was done to discover the problems that caused it. It's almost as good as a good spying book ! . In my opinion it's the best part of the book, but you'll need to read the first two to understand it.
All in all, an unavoidable book for the writers-to-be of device drivers and other kernel modules, maybe the best one. But I won't use it as a reference book.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Great book!
28 Nov 2001
Format:Paperback
I believe this book is not only an exceptional tutorial on crash dump debugging techniques but also a good review of the Solaris kernel architecture and data structures. The authors have done a great job explaining such highly technical and complicated topics like processor architecuture, stacks, file system data structures, adb, assembly code, etc. Not exactly bed-time reading!
Although some of the examples are a little bit out of date (Sparc V9 and Solaris 8 are the industry norm more or less) and a second edition is becoming more and more a necessity, I will still give this book 5+ stars.
The excellent presentation and exemplary technical make Crash! (relatively) very easy to read but several years of strong Solaris experience, a good understanding of computer architecure, OS fundamentals, data structures, and some knowledge of C are still required for full comprehension of the content.
Before diving into this book I would strongly encourage the potential reader to at least review "UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers" by Uresh Vahalia, "Design of the Unix Operating System" by Marice J. Bach, Maurice Bach or "Solaris Internals: Core Kernel Architecture" by Jim Mauro, Richard McDougall.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A Book This Good Should Be Kept Up-To-Date
3 July 2001
Format:Paperback
What the other reviewers have said in consensus, I'll just stipulate: this book is a gentle but comprehensive introduction to core file analysis; it's also an excellent reference on kernel architecture. For its clarity of technical writing, it deserve some kind of award, considering how deathly-dull the subject matter can be. I couldn't stay awake through one pass of the assembly code illustrations, but I don't think the writers could have helped that. This book is a nonetheless a triumph, albeit a dated one.
Now, c'mon, Prentice-Hall, help the audience out! This book was written in 1995. It uses Solaris 2.3 and sun4d architecture as its latest and greatest. Solaris (2.)8 has been out for a while and 9 is on the way; sparcv9/64-bit architecture is here; mdb, the modular debugger, is going to replace adb; the book *must* be updated. It would be a crime to let it die now -- there's still no competitive title on the market.
The book is non-technical enough that I couldn't make all the changes needed to get the older examples to work. If I ever do, though, maybe I'll be good enough to write a competitive title myself...
That said, even if the next edition were to out in three months, I'd still buy this one now to get started; it's that good.
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