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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 01:50:49 +0000
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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.
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