From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Oct 18 18:16:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (CDR8-44.accesscable.net [24.138.8.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A10CD37B4E5; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 18:16:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id e9J1ET307117; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 22:14:29 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 22:14:29 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Terry Lambert Cc: Kris Kirby , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual CPU Xeon server hangs on SMP kernel ... In-Reply-To: <200010190044.RAA19057@usr05.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Terry, if I feared 'the shotgun', I wouldn't ask the question ... I'm > > going to spent tomorrow morning going through the BIOs, as well as do the > > serial connection/snapshot and see what I can come with and report back > > You misunderstand: we fear giving you a shotgun, since you might > be able to kill your problem without identifying its species for > us before blowing it to smithereens. Doing that only fixes the > problem or you, and nets us more requests for shotguns. On the > other hand, if you take the time to help us identify the species, > we can eradicate it, and save a lot of shotguns going off all over, > as well as a lot of future requests for the same. > > If it gets fixed in the source tree, it's fixed for all time; if > it gets fixed on your machine, it's a problem for all time. oops, sorry, misunderstood the reference ... I was putting it more in the context of asking a question without providing enough information ... regardless, will try and provide as much info tomorrow as I possibly can, based on what you've mentioned, and see where we can take it from there ... :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message