>What is this NMI watchdog? How do I enable it? NMI and watchdog words >don't exist in my .config. The NMI watchdog has some good documentation in the file nmi_watchdog.txt in the Documentation directory of the kernel src tree. HTH, Shaw -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/