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From: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode at fs.ei.tum.de>
Subject: Re: URGENT: [diagnostic] cache_lock: blocked on 0xda5265a8 ""
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:42:54 +0200
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Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     I'd rather not login to the box.  I think it really needs a core.

Did you ever try kgdb on a live system?  That really works amazingly well.  Just try it and you'll see!  Especially these blocked-on things are easy to debug, because on blocked processes don't move forward and thus don't change state while debugging.

cheers
  simon

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