On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 02:05:50PM -0300, Pupeno wrote: > > I've dealt with random freezes due to badly supported hardware - driver > > bugs - for IDE controllers and SCSI controllers. Grabbing newer sources > > is one good test. Another is using the NMI watchdog, which can help you > > understand the crashes and identify which driver may be at fault. Info > > on the NMI watchdog can be found in: > > > > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt > > > > It's extremely useful, but only if you're either not running X or using > > an external serial console - so you can see its output. > Unfortunatly, I'm using X and I don't have any serial consoles at hand... is > there anything that I can still do ?
I don't know of a way to send the watchdog's output anywhere other than the console - maybe someone else on the list does. The NMI watchdog doesn't depend on any OS services (as indeed it must not), so writing its results to disk isn't possible, AFAIK. Nathan Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
