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Date:      Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:49:15 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: When do you want to see panics?
Message-ID:  <20001005134915.D27736@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20001005161501.A79896@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:15:01PM -0400
References:  <20001005161501.A79896@blackhelicopters.org>

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* Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> [001005 13:15] wrote:
> Not sure if this is on-topic, but what the heck:
> 
> I've started playing a little more freely with my laptop.  One result
> is comparatively frequent panics when doing things I know damn well
> are almost certain to fail, say, while playing with the Linuxulator or
> in mount_union.
> 
> Are these panics & debugger dumps something people want to see, or is
> the general attitude "then don't *do* that!" ?
> 
> If you folks want 'em, I'll send them.
> 
> (I suppose the generalized form of this question is, "Are panics
> normal when the sysadmin is a behaving like a damned fool?" ;)

I really depends, if you're doing stuff like randomly writing to
/dev/kmem probably not, on the otherhand if you're getting panics
just by running linux programs that aren't system related then
probably yes. :)

-Alfred



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