SMP on HP NetServer LH3 (was Re: 4.9 SMP Stability?)

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Apr 15 19:23:47 PDT 2004


On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 03:24:11PM -0700, Rick Updegrove wrote:

> When it does crash, I am supposed to watch for the "Instruction pointer" 
>  according to 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/advanced.html#KERNEL-PANIC-TROUBLESHOOTING
> 
> Since that is next to impossible to see that unless I sit in the 
> freezing cold server room and stare at the monitor until it crashes and 
> hurry up and write it down I am wondering if that is logged anywhere?

Yes, it's part of the crash dump.  You can also include DDB in your
kernel to make it drop into the debugger when the kernel panics.

Kris
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