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		javanix on March 14, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linux gets frozen, what do you do? Sysrq is kinda neat. You can force a kernel panic by 'echo c > /proc/sysrq' if you really want.

graylights on March 14, 2014 [–]

That is disabled in some distros, it can be toggled via /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq

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