Re: A true story of a crash.

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
15 Aug 1998 21:53:07 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9808151736240.21111-100000@n3ryb.dyn.ml.org>
By author: AndroSyn <androsyn@n3ryb.dyn.ml.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> The old KISS principle...Having a locked system and the admin 2 hours away
> could be a definite problem....If you kill all users tasks(have init go
> down to single user and back to multiuser, you at least have a chance of
> the system stablizing itself. Sure a few connections get dropped to
> various daemons, but isn't this a bit better than no connections until
> whoever realizes the reset button needs pressed....
>

IMNSHO, it would actually be better to perform a full reboot once you
go to that stage. Most init scripts have only been extensively tested
to bring things properly up from reset, and that way you know things
are pretty clean. Anyway, this may be appropriate for some
environments, but not other.

Also, IMO the kernel shouldn't try to kill a process with iopl
(i.e. the X-server).

-hpa

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