non reliable nmi

Mike Silbersack silby at silby.com
Wed Sep 3 23:16:09 PDT 2003


On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Don Bowman wrote:

> I have machdep.ddb_on_nmi=1.
> I can drop into the debugger with the magic
> key sequence. However, when i hit the NMI
> jumper, i don't always go there. Sometimes
> I do.
> The system is 4-way SMP [2xHTT xeon processors]
> with 4.7.
>
> Any suggestion on where my NMI might be going?

Is your NMI about 106K in size, and does it have the subjects "Thank you",
"Wicked screensaver" and others?  If so, I think I know where it's
going...

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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