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To: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: infinite loop in kernel 
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In message <20030413223656.A21075@armor.free.fr>, Nicolas Souchu writes:
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>Hi folks,
>
>I'm trying to debug some infinite loop in the kernel. I guess
>this is the problem since key interrupts are still working but
>the system does not respond otherwise.
>
>Unfortunatly, breaking in the debugger only gives my the
>trace of the kbd intr thread...
>
>Which data structure should I check?

Use "ps" in DDB to see which processes are runnable for instance.

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