From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264478AbTLEUeu (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 15:34:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264485AbTLEUeu (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 15:34:50 -0500 Received: from pop.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:57740 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264478AbTLEUet (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 15:34:49 -0500 X-Authenticated: #4512188 Message-ID: <3FD0EBE6.9080003@gmx.de> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 21:34:46 +0100 From: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031116 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cheuche+lkml@free.fr CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog References: <20031205201812.GA10538@localnet> In-Reply-To: <20031205201812.GA10538@localnet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > through easily. I first thought the box freezed but I realized the > software cursor was blinking *very* slowly. In fact 1 second for the > kernel took about 12 seconds. Stopping the IO load on ide and > everything seems back to normal. Hmm, interesting observation. This makes me remeber something: When my machine freezes doing hdparm, the cursor still blinks, but I can't do anything anymore. Maybe a connection to your observation? I haven't treid to run the NMI watchdog, as you guys haven't had success with it yet. Prakash