Re: Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog

[Prakash K. Cheemplavam]

> through easily. I first thought the box freezed but I realized the
> software cursor was blinking *very* slowly. In fact 1 second for the
> kernel took about 12 seconds. Stopping the IO load on ide and
> everything seems back to normal.

Hmm, interesting observation. This makes me remeber something: When my 
machine freezes doing hdparm, the cursor still blinks, but I can't do 
anything anymore. Maybe a connection to your observation? I haven't 
treid to run the NMI watchdog, as you guys haven't had success with it yet.

Prakash


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