On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 15:43 -0700, Ray Lee wrote:
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> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Lee Howard <faxguy@howardsilvan.com> wr=
ote:

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> >  But, without kernel messages indicating where to look to debug... what=
 is
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> > the best approach to start troubleshooting and debugging this condition=
?  Is
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> > there some general debug feature that can be enabled in the kernel that
> > would help hone in on the culprit?
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> There's something called the NMI watchdog, that will print debugging
> messages out if it finds the system has hard locked. The short version
> is that you should add "nmi_watchdog=3D1" (no quotes) to the line in
> GRUB that has the kernel options. That assumes you have an APIC on the
> system. If that's not the case (you're on Uniprocessor, and no APIC)
> then you can try nmi_watchdog=3D2 instead. That'll only work on some
> systems, though.
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> Better docs (than my cheesy writeup) are in
> Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt in the kernel source distribution.

I was once told to add these to the kernel command line as well when
using NMI watchdog and they do seem to help it trigger more reliably:=20

"idle=3Dpoll nohz=3Doff"

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Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>