Subject: Re: blinking motherboard light
To: Nathan Gelbard <gelbard@ENGR.ORST.EDU>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@NetBSD.ORG>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/03/1998 07:18:08
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Nathan Gelbard wrote:

: Popped the back off the ELC and the mobo light (amber)
: is BLINKING. I could have sworn it was solid when it first
: booted. What does the blink ( 1 Hz) entail?

8-).

Look at your krnel configuration file for "options BLINK".  It's turned on
in yours.  That blink indicats system load:  a blink every N seconds mans
that the system's load average for 1 minute is between (N-1) and N.

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)