Subject: Re: me box freezes solider'n the iceman
To: Hume Smith <hclsmith@glinx.com>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/16/1999 18:16:44
hclsmith@glinx.com (Hume Smith) writes:
> >Try this (as root):
> 
> >sysctl -w ddb.onpanic=3D0
> 
> 
> and i started setting this yesterday; just now it froze and left no coredump
> in /, nor that savecore found.

Note that ddb.onpanic will _not_ keep you from falling into DDB
(either in 1.4.x or -current) if you get a fatal kernel trap.

(That's a bug.  8-)

I suggest compiling DDB out of your kernel entirely.  If you use X on
a regular basis, unless you happen to croak when X isn't started it's
just not going to help you at all.


cgd
-- 
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Disclaimer: Not speaking for NetBSD, just expressing my own opinion.