Re: Re: [LIP] CPU Info

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 11:38:55PM -0600, Sandeep Sundaram wrote:
> 
> Now, these statistics are printed even if one of the CPUs is made non
> functional. So, we cannot really detect if one of the CPUs is down or not.
> And that is exactly what I need to do !! I need to detect the failure of a
> CPU. Is there any other way to do so ?!
> 
> And what exactly is this Equation that you mentioned ?!

If one of the CPUs fails, your system will probably hang, if the failed
CPU was holding a lock.

	-Arun