What is the exected behavior with the NMI button?

[Sean Bruno]

On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 07:17 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> While trying to get a deadlock sorted out in the GPROF code, I attempted
> to use this fancy shmancy NMI button on my Dell server.
> 
> I noted that, not unlike the goggles, it did nothing once the system was
> deadlocked.  I noted that when the system was running normally, an NMI
> log message would be spewed to the console.


In the event you don't get the goggles reference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqfOxm_1BE0

Sean