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From: "Andrew Morton" <morton@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: Frank de Lange <frank@unternet.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 01:50:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ABAABF9.294E89BD@asiapacificm01.nt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4514.985311303@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>

Keith Owens wrote:
> 
> Am I the only person who is annoyed that nmi watchdog is now off by
> default and the only way to activate it is by a boot parameter?  You
> cannot even patch the kernel to build a version that has nmi watchdog
> on because the startup code runs out of the __setup routine, no boot
> parameter, no watchdog.

It was causing SMP boxes to crash mysteriously after
several hours or days.  Quite a lot of them.  Nobody
was able to explain why, so it was turned off.

  reply	other threads:[~2001-03-23  2:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-22 23:02 Linux 2.4.2-ac21 Frank de Lange
2001-03-23  1:35 ` Keith Owens
2001-03-23  1:50   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-03-23  2:16     ` Keith Owens
2001-03-23 14:13       ` Admin Mailing Lists
2001-03-23 14:40         ` Adrian Bunk
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-03-22 18:35 Alan Cox
2001-03-22 19:20 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-03-22 23:25 ` Sergey Kubushin
2001-03-22 23:36   ` Alan Cox
2001-03-23  0:11     ` Sergey Kubushin
2001-03-23  7:52 ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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