From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:54:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:54:56 -0500 Received: from franka.aracnet.com ([216.99.193.44]:64485 "EHLO franka.aracnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:54:55 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:05:08 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Mark Haverkamp cc: linux-kernel , lse-tech Subject: Re: 2.5.62-mjb3 (scalability / NUMA patchset) Message-ID: <4790000.1046300707@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <1046300601.3375.13.camel@markh1.pdx.osdl.net> References: <6490000.1045713212@[10.10.2.4]> <16170000.1046110132@[10.10.2.4]> <1046273777.1913.6.camel@markh1.pdx.osdl.net> <3090000.1046274931@[10.10.2.4]> <1046299742.3375.3.camel@markh1.pdx.osdl.net> <4140000.1046300025@[10.10.2.4]> <1046300601.3375.13.camel@markh1.pdx.osdl.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> > I turned on NMI watchdogs and when the system hung, I saw no output. >> > My serial console is through a terminal server that isn't set up to >> > pass along the sysrq, so I need to get this fixed. In any case I >> > backed out the patch that you suggested and I have had no system hangs >> > since. >> >> OK, I'll back out that patch for now, but it seems to indicate underlying >> crud. What parameter did you set for NMI watchdog? > > I set it to 1. In Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt this looked like the > only option. Now that I look at apic.h, I see that I could set it to 2 > also. If you like I can try this also. 2 is what we used sucessfully last time, but I can't remember the difference off the top of my head ... if you could try that, would be most useful. M.