From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 5 13:49:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D45037B502 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:49:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e95KnFx05066; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:49:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:49:15 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Michael Lucas Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When do you want to see panics? Message-ID: <20001005134915.D27736@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20001005161501.A79896@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20001005161501.A79896@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:15:01PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Michael Lucas [001005 13:15] wrote: > Not sure if this is on-topic, but what the heck: > > I've started playing a little more freely with my laptop. One result > is comparatively frequent panics when doing things I know damn well > are almost certain to fail, say, while playing with the Linuxulator or > in mount_union. > > Are these panics & debugger dumps something people want to see, or is > the general attitude "then don't *do* that!" ? > > If you folks want 'em, I'll send them. > > (I suppose the generalized form of this question is, "Are panics > normal when the sysadmin is a behaving like a damned fool?" ;) I really depends, if you're doing stuff like randomly writing to /dev/kmem probably not, on the otherhand if you're getting panics just by running linux programs that aren't system related then probably yes. :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message