How to Enable Deadman Kernel in solaris 10

Deadman code is enabled by setting snooping in /etc/system. Make the

following entry in the /etc/system file:

set snooping = 1

Reboot the system with kadb:

ok boot kadb

When the next hang occurs, hopefully the deadman timer will be triggered,

and the system will drop into kadb:

# ~stopped at 0xfbd01028: ta 0x7d

kadb[0]:

At this point, any specific debugger commands can be run to examine the

current state of the system. Of particular interest are:

$r dump the registers

$c dump the current stack backtrace

freemem/D see how much memory is free

When kadb debugging is complete, attempt to take a core dump by doing:

kadb[0]: $q

ok sync

Regards

Gurudatta N.R