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From: frodef@dslab5.cs.uit.no (Frode Vatvedt Fjeld)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FreeBSD hangs
Date: 01 Oct 1996 15:04:43 GMT
Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <FRODEF.96Oct1160443@dslab5.cs.uit.no>
NNTP-Posting-Host: dslab5.cs.uit.no
I recently installed the latest FreeBSD snapshot on my PC. In most
respects it works very well, except that sometimes (every few hours)
everything freezes permanently. No message appears on the console. The
reset-button appears to be the only way out. Everyone says FreeBSD is
more stable than Linux (with which I'm more experienced, and this sort
of thing rarely happened), so how come this happens all the time?
Does anyone have ideas where I should search for the problem? The
snapshot in question is 2.2-960801-SNAP. I also tried briefly the
2.1.5-RELEASE, and the same thing happened there (I reinstalled
_everything_ with the snapshot).
I discovered a file /var/crash/minfree once (it held the string
"2048"), but I have no idea what that means.
Also, the top-3.3 package that came with the snapshot does not work,
it allways coredumps when it tries to print the process-info.
I compiled my own kernel, and all devices appear to work well. It's an
all SCSI-system (NCR 53C810 on motherboard, no IDE-drivers compiled
in), otherwise it's a very standard PC configuration. I have 48M of
swap, and I'm pretty sure it's not exhausted. The freeze has happened
both under heavy load and no load at all.
Please help, I can't live with rebooting my computer every two hours!
(I'd install Win95 if I could).
Thanks,
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Frode Vatvedt Fjeld e-mail..: frodef@stud.cs.uit.no
WWW.....: http://www.cs.uit.no/~frodef/