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Serial Console Pros and Cons

Why does StorPool recommend against serial console on production installations?

TL;DR – try ‘echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger‘ and see what happens. The serial console and frame buffer are two separate ways for the kernel to display text, either to a remote machine or on the local display. They both suffer from a very similar problem, that they block the CPU they run on for long Why does StorPool recommend against serial console on production installations?

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