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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: SO DO I: PROBLEM WITH HANGING KERNEL AFTER HEAVY Message-ID: <hastyC8090y.Exv@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <1993May31.180743.18903@vlsi.polymtl.ca> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 17:38:57 GMT Lines: 32 In article <1993May31.180743.18903@vlsi.polymtl.ca> big@von-neumann (Patrick Drolet) writes: >I've also experienced problems with netBSD 0.8 while rebuilding an xfree >X386 kernel. I've got 32 megs of swap & 8 megs of ram. > >Before it hangs, my swapinfo tells me that all (32 megs) the swap area is >being used, but I have to run swapinfo (with a script looping on swapinfo >every 5 seconds) to know the problem. The OS doesn't tell me that swap area >is fully used. > >Maybe I'll try to build the X386 kernel using gcc 1.x instead of 2.x > Well, I have build XS3 with gcc-2.3.3 several times and NetBSD-0.8 refuses to hang :-) And, I have slip and NFS up and running. This morning I re-booted our NFS server and the other NFS client after the server came up had no problems in seeing the nfs mounted partition -- very, very cool. The sore note is that I was trying to mount a low density DOS floppy which cause the system to hang not cool at all. Enjoy, Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming