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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 20:13:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807062013.40618.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807061836.29328.dirk.heinrichs@online.de>

On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
> > On Sonntag, 6. Juli 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > > What's this nmi_watchdog=0 good for (just curious)?
> >
> > to make sure it is off ;)
>
> Got me ;) So what's this nmi_watchdog good for?

in theory it should be able to 'break' some kinds of lockups.

just read this:
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt

its a good read.
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-06 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-05 23:04 [gentoo-user] grub boot problem Matthew R. Lee
2008-07-05 23:15 ` Mick
2008-07-05 23:38   ` Matthew R. Lee
2008-07-05 23:47     ` Matt Harrison
2008-07-05 23:59       ` Dale
2008-07-06  0:13       ` Matthew R. Lee
2008-07-06  0:33         ` Matthew R. Lee
2008-07-06  7:05           ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-07-06  0:27     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-07-06 13:49 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-07-06 14:23   ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-07-06 14:41     ` Mick
2008-07-06 14:47       ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-07-06 15:08         ` Alan McKinnon
2008-07-06 15:12       ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-07-06 14:47     ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-07-06 15:12       ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-07-06 16:36         ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-07-06 18:13           ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2008-07-07  6:58             ` Dirk Heinrichs

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