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

[Rick Updegrove]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
 > 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.

Cool.

 > You can also include DDB in your
 > kernel to make it drop into the debugger when the kernel panics.

Ok considering I am an hour's drive away from the machine most of the 
time, I probably do not want to do that, correct?

I want it to reboot then come back online so I can SSH to it and 
continue with the troubleshooting right?


Rick