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From: andrew@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de (Peppermint Lucy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 0.9 NetBSD hangs
Date: 12 Sep 1993 15:17:58 GMT
Organization: University of Mannheim, Germany
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Bob Kemp (rsk@ecs.soton.ac.uk) wrote:
: In <26tidf$luo@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU> marty@TC.Cornell.EDU (Marty Faltesek) writes:

: >With 0.9 NetBSD, every day or so, the machine hangs after
: >executing an arbitrary command.   I have a 386DX-33 with
: >X running, and 8 megs.  

This used to happen to me with 0.8-current but that was because I had
an old version of the Adaptec 1542c. Now that I am using real SCSI-2-
Cables the problem has disapeered. It could also be that you have
errors on the HD, you could check by running a thorough destructive test
over it for a night or two. It could also be that you are just running
out of swap space. I have found 32mb to be enought for most cases, and
I have never reached the 64mb limit.

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