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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.11-pre vs Red Hat, ac kernels 
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On Sat, 06 Oct 2001 09:21:32 -0700, 
J Sloan <jjs@pobox.com> wrote:
>With any 2.4.11-pre kernel so far, the machine locks
>up hard within seconds of starting a dbench run.
>No log entries, and SysRq keys have no effect -
>The power button is the only option in this case.

Does kdb + the NMI watchdog drop into the debugger and can you get a
backtrace?  ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/ix86, boot with
"nmi_watchdog=1".

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