Making Software Troubleshooting Simple
Excellent read to refine general problem solving skills towards simplicity, understand broad applicability of modeling and just for fun:
Simpleology: The Simple Science of Getting What You Want
Now I’m going to have a simple lunch and read this simple book. What about the rating? Of course, it is simple too! Maximum! 1 star in my simple zero-one binary rating system - worth (1) or not worth (0) to read.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -
November 20th, 2007 at 11:50 am
I particularly like the law of straight lines applied to spooler crash or hangs: don’t do printer driver elimination one by one - go straight and dump the spooler (or collect a postmortem dump) or if we cannot get dumps due to security reasons get the output from the following commands:
.symfix
!analyze -v
!analyze -v -hang
~*kv 100
!locks
lmv