>
> On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > I guess that spontaneous reboots are mostly caused by kernel stack
> > overflow. As it seems to be pretty widespread problem, it might be
> > nice to produce patch to detect such overflows (and panic() machine so
> > that messages are not lost).
> >
> > [With one version of kernel, all you had to do to reboot the machine
> > was to press t and <TAB> twice in bash$ prompt ;-)]
>
> you might want to give ktrace a go, it detects stack overflows as well.
> Alternatively you also might want to try EGCS's --check-stack, i dont know
> what it does, it might need some tweaking to suit kernel needs.
>
> -- mingo
>
Had this behaviour again with 2.1.75. Where can one find a recent ktrace?
Magnus