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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!uni-mannheim!wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de!andrew 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 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <26vej6$2fo@darum.uni-mannheim.de> References: <26tidf$luo@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU> <26v1l7$bnk@pessoa.ecs.soton.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Bob Kemp (rsk@ecs.soton.ac.uk) wrote: : In <26tidf$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. -- Eat the rich -- the poor are tough and stringy.