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Various authors (spwoods@us.ibm.com), Compiled by developerWorks, IBM

01 Jan 2002
Updated 30 Sep 2005

The publications on this page represent contributions by members of the IBM Linux® Technology Center to the development community on the topic of Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS).

Publication title	Date	Description	Link
"Locating system problems using dynamic instrumentation"	Jul 2005	SystemTAP is being developed to dynamically instrument the kernel and user applications. This paper and presentation provide details of the SystemTAP architecture and implementation. Presented at the 2005 Ottawa Linux Symposium, and co-authored by IBM, Red Hat, and Intel.	Read the presentation (PDF) Read the paper (PDF)
"Kdump, A Kexec-based kernel crash dumping mechanism"	Jul 2005	This paper and presentation discuss what kexec is and what it can do. Presented at the 2005 Ottawa Linux Symposium, and written by Vivek Goyal, IBM; Eric W. Biederman, Linux NetworkX; and Hariprasad Nellitheertha, IBM.	Read the presentation (PDF) Read the paper (PDF)
"Dynamic Probes - Debugging by Stealth"	Jan 2003	Presented by Suparna Bhattacharya at Linux.Conf.Au 2003.	Read the presentation (PDF)
"Linux on IBM zSeries and S/390: High Availability for z/VM and Linux"	Oct 2002	A Redpaper published by Erich Amrehn, Ronald Annuss, Bernhard Dierberger, Richard Plasun, and U. Sager.	Read the Redpaper
"Dynamic Probes and Linux Trace Toolkit"	Sep 2002	Paper describing how to use these two tools together. Written by Michael Grundy, Theresa Halloran, and Karin Laeben.	Read the paper (PDF)
"Dynamic Probes for Linux"	Jan 2002	Discussion of the DProbes project. Presented at LinuxWorld Expo by Richard Moore.	Read the presentation (PDF)
"Implementing HA Servers on Linux"	Jan 2002	Presented at LinuxWorld Expo by Alan Robertson.	Read the presentation (PDF)
"LKCD Installation and Configuration"	Jan 2002	Discussion of the Linux Kernel Crash Dump project. Presented by Ross Mikosh.	Read the lesson (PDF)

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