Re: The stability crisis

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Sat, 3 Jul 1999 20:54:04 -0700 (PDT)

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On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Keith Owens wrote:
> When the kernel is hung, almost all I/O hangs with it.
> You can discuss where to dump Oops to your heart's content. Unless you
> can rely on the dump mechanism to work when the kernel is dead then you
> are wasting your time.

So figure out a way to keep PC BIOS from mangling ram on hard reset.
Then dump to swap from lilo or something.

-Dan

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