From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 27 21:56:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01F3A37B4D7 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:56:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eAS5uLM27833; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:56:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:56:21 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: system hangs ... not sure how to debug ... Message-ID: <20001127215621.T8051@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from scrappy@hub.org on Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:11:39PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * The Hermit Hacker [001127 18:12] wrote: > > Morning all ... > > Every since the SMPng code went into -current way back when, I've > been experiencing hangs ... and am not quite sure how to debug this. I'm > in X all the time, so breaking to the debugger to see where its hanging > isn't possible ... > > Some kernels its relatively easy to trigger, some kernels are > harder to trigger, but they all do at some point in time ... > > Can someone suggestion a method of being able to debug this? Serial console, add BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER (sp?) to your kernel config and hook your laptop up to it. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message