What is vmkgdbd? It might cause all this downtime…
Mar 16, 2009 Blogs
Most of you will have noticed the regular downtime or incredible slowness of the Virtual Lifestyle website. I’m running this website on a VMware ESXi 3.5 build 130755 machine. A couple of days ago, I ran the command ‘vmkgdbd’ by accident, and might be the cause of all the problem’s I’m having.
I tried Googling for ‘vmkgdbd‘, searched the VMTN Communities, but I can’t find anything about it.Duncan Epping pointed out that the tool is the VMKernel debugger.
Now for the million-dollar question: how can I stop this tool wreaking all this havoc? Please comment below, send me a tweet or send me an e-mail if you know anything that could help me out and save me a 2 hour trip to the datacenter!
March 16th, 2009 at 23:27
VMware just released this KB article, maybe it will help. There was a formatting problem so I had to take a screen shot:
http://www.boche.net/dropbox/vmkgdbd.jpg
March 16th, 2009 at 23:31
LOL, dude…
March 16th, 2009 at 23:34
Jason, that’s just mean
March 19th, 2009 at 14:59
I think Joep didn’t screw up at all, and that this is a provider-issue.
March 20th, 2009 at 17:34
Well, the problem wasn’t the debugger after all, it was just a terrible coincidence with the network at the datacenter failing like the Twitter failwhale…