Re: 2.3.15p2, /proc related oops/crash/reboot

Mike Galbraith (mikeg@weiden.de)
Mon, 23 Aug 1999 05:18:53 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, David Ford wrote:

> ok, crash data is still somewhat vague so i'm working on it.
>
> two different things happen depending on your uid.
>
> tty1: while [ 1 ]; do ls -laR /proc; done
> tty2; watch "w;echo;free"
> tty3; while [ 1 ]; do ls -laR /proc; done
> tty4; top
>
> tty arrangement is irrelevant.
>
> UID0, oopses, crashes, and reboots will happen.
> UIDn, processes go D state, WCHAN is 'down_f'

Hi,

I can't reproduce crashes here, runs and runs.

but..

For grabbing crash data, you can use a serial console on another box
or if you have a line-printer, you can use that as a console. IKD+KDB
can be very useful for grabbing snapshots of odd events too. (I have
a freshly extracted 2.3.15-2 diff (~100k gzipped) sitting here in case
anyone needs one)

-Mike

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