Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 22:14:29 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual CPU Xeon server hangs on SMP kernel ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010182213150.974-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <200010190044.RAA19057@usr05.primenet.com>
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Terry, if I feared 'the shotgun', I wouldn't ask the question ... I'm > > going to spent tomorrow morning going through the BIOs, as well as do the > > serial connection/snapshot and see what I can come with and report back > > You misunderstand: we fear giving you a shotgun, since you might > be able to kill your problem without identifying its species for > us before blowing it to smithereens. Doing that only fixes the > problem or you, and nets us more requests for shotguns. On the > other hand, if you take the time to help us identify the species, > we can eradicate it, and save a lot of shotguns going off all over, > as well as a lot of future requests for the same. > > If it gets fixed in the source tree, it's fixed for all time; if > it gets fixed on your machine, it's a problem for all time. oops, sorry, misunderstood the reference ... I was putting it more in the context of asking a question without providing enough information ... regardless, will try and provide as much info tomorrow as I possibly can, based on what you've mentioned, and see where we can take it from there ... :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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