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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!wa.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.webspan.net!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD hangs Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 18:59:28 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 15 Message-ID: <32531E00.62319AC4@FreeBSD.org> References: <FRODEF.96Oct1160443@dslab5.cs.uit.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Frode Vatvedt Fjeld <frodef@dslab5.cs.uit.no> Frode Vatvedt Fjeld wrote: > 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 Bizarre! Do other operating systems run well on this hardware? The system appears to be made of more than reasonable parts, yet I've never seen this happen on any of the FreeBSD machines I'm using (or help others to administer) so *something* is clearly different, somewhere. What sort of "job mix" do you run? Anything special you using this machine for? -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project