On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 20:09:01 -0700 (PDT) Dan Mick Dan.Mick@West.Sun.COM wrote:

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If I post to a specific list, or approve a held post for that list, there is an 80% chance that this will crash the machine (compleat lock, no interrupts, no useful log entries).

What do you mean "crash the system"? Panic and coredump? Hang? Crash mailman/python and everything else is still up?

As stated: compleat lock, no interrupts being serviced, no log entries. Basically: utterly indistinguishable from a powered off machine other than by power consumption. No KB, no met, no stack, no video (well, a slight grayish diffuse glow actually), nuttin'.

If panic/coredump, some time spent in cursory kernel coredump analysis is warranted to point a finger at a culprit. Being a kernel developer, I'm biased, but when people say "crash the machine" that's what I think of. Is that what you mean?

Nope. No panics, no cores, just one big wedgie.

These are among the reasons this whole thing fits the description of "odd".

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