A coredump is a snapshot of a process’s memory that is usually created by the kernel when a crash happens. These can be fairly helpful to find out which part of the code broke by looking at the backtrace or finding any kind of corruption by introspecting the memory itself. Unfortunately it can be a bit tedious to work with these. This article aims to give an overview over helpful tools & tricks to leverage the full power of coredumps on Nix-based systems.
One of the most important features for system administrators who operate NixOS systems are atomic upgrades which means that a deployment won’t reach an inconsistent state: if building a new system’s configuration succeeds, it will be activated in a single step by replacing the /run/current-system-symlink. If a build fails, e.g. due to broken packages, the configuration won’t be activated. This also means that downgrades are fairly simple since a previous configuration can be reactivated in a so-called rollback by changing the symlink to /run/current-system back to the previous store-path.
This is part 2 of a series of blog posts explaining how we took an existing Windows installation on hardware and moved it into a VM running on top of NixOS. Previously, we discussed how we performed the actual storage migration. In this post, we’ll cover the various performance optimisations we tried, what worked, and what didn’t work. GPU passthrough Since the machine is, amongst other things, used for gaming, graphics performance is critical.
globin
NixOS Release Manager
Robin has been using Linux since he was a 13 year old child in school and has always been hacking around with it, being happiest with NixOS and loving its declarativity. No more eventual consistency, the usual case with other configuration management.
ma27
NixOS Maintainer
After several years of using NixOS, Maximilian is still amazed by its declarative approach and reliability. Accordingly he actively helps keeping NixOS up-to-date & stable and contributes his insights and experience back into our projects.
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