Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 17:43:43 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: asami@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tree tagging put off by ~12 hours. Message-ID: <199807220743.RAA01607@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>You still don't seem to understand. "Worse" is freefall crashing and >denying service for a problem which is still unknown but seems fairly >non-fatal (at least unless it panics the system). Unless you have an >actual fix for this problem, and I don't see it attached to your >message anywhere, this is _exactly_ the right thing to do. Having >freefall drop into the debugger 2 or 3 times a day is not a solution. Having freefall drop into the debugger is another misconfiguration. DDB shouldn't be used except on machines that will be attended for 24 hours/day or where downtime doesn't matter. NMIs in combination with DDB are more broken than I remembered. When DDB is configured, NMIs are interpreted as being from the "NMI pushbutton for debugging" and are not handled normally. >Since you can't fix it, don't make it worse by making stupid >suggestions. :-) I can only fix the software problems :-). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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