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Summary

  • The /etc/kdump.conf file configures the kdump service.

  • The kdumpctl command performs common kdump administration tasks.

  • The sysctl command can configure kernel crashes to occur on OOM, hung process, soft lookup, and NMI events.

  • The stap command runs SystemTap scripts and compiles them into portable kernel modules.

  • The staprun command runs SystemTap-compiled probes on target systems to gather diagnostic traces.

  • The non-root users in the stapusr and stapdev groups can run and compile SystemTap modules.

  • The ftrace framework helps to debug and analyze latency and performance issues.

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