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Crashing a Linux Host (on purpose)

I have been modifying our enterprise kdump configuration and I would like to do some testing.  It turns out that crashing Linux is actually quite simple. $ sudo su - # echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger Now.. I get to figure out why my system is unable to dump to NFS.... ya!