Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Mar 2001 01:50:49 +0000 | From | "Andrew Morton" <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21 |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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