From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 15 19:49:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B4A716A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 19:49:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp1.mc.surewest.net (smtp1.mc.surewest.net [66.60.130.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F85A43D5E for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 19:49:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dislists@updegrove.net) Received: (s3-32681); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 19:48:37 -0700 Received: from unknown (HELO updegrove.net) (64.30.97.117) by smtp1.mc.surewest.net (s3-smtpd/0.90-beta3) with SMTP; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 19:48:36 -0700 Received: (qmail 41861 invoked by uid 98); 16 Apr 2004 02:49:50 -0000 Received: from dislists@updegrove.net by smeagol.purgatory by uid 1008 with qmail-scanner-1.20 Clear:RC:1(192.168.0.2):. Processed in 0.394884 secs); 16 Apr 2004 02:49:50 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: dislists@updegrove.net via smeagol.purgatory X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.20 (Clear:RC:1(192.168.0.2):. Processed in 0.394884 secs) Received: from unknown (HELO updegrove.net) (192.168.0.2) by updegrove.net with SMTP; 16 Apr 2004 02:49:48 -0000 Message-ID: <407F4AFA.8010801@updegrove.net> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 19:54:50 -0700 From: Rick Updegrove User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040331 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20040414083216.A45296@server.gisp.dk> <407D466E.9060900@updegrove.net> <407DBD39.6020405@updegrove.net> <20040414232312.GA56901@xor.obsecurity.org> <407DCB29.8010109@updegrove.net> <20040415000022.GA57253@xor.obsecurity.org> <407DE32B.8040304@updegrove.net> <20040415014851.GA58873@xor.obsecurity.org> <407E01A9.1060004@updegrove.net> <407F0B8B.5040007@updegrove.net> <20040416022345.GA76228@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040416022345.GA76228@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TST: smtp1 SNWK3 0.31-55 ip=64.30.97.117 Subject: Re: SMP on HP NetServer LH3 (was Re: 4.9 SMP Stability?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 02:49:50 -0000 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