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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!sorokin!jason From: jason@sorokin.anu.edu.au (Jason Andrade) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Occasional system hangs Date: 8 Dec 92 02:31:04 GMT Organization: Australian National University Lines: 42 Message-ID: <jason.723781864@sorokin> References: <1992Dec2.134644.12405@cli.di.unipi.it> <1992Dec2.140837.12619@cli.di.unipi.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.12 luigi@iet.unipi.it writes: >I'm running 386bsd, with most of patches installed, on a 486-33, *meg >RAM, IDE drive, WD8013 clone. The system works more or less fine, except >that I'm experiencing hangs every now and then (the current record for >uptime is 3 days, but on the average it's hard to have the system up for >more than 2 days). Symptoms: >hard to tell, because when it hangs I cannot telnet into the system or >even use the console. No messages appear on the console either. >CTRL-ALT-DEL does not work either. The few times I happened to be >logged in (via telnet) at crash time, I could type in a command name >(e.g. uptime...) and see the echo, then CR and that's it: no output, no >more echo, no more telnet, system hangs without any message on the >console. It might be that the attempt to execute my command would crash >the system. But other times the system crashes with only one idle user >logged via telnet (plus the daemons, of course). > Any suggestions ? > Thanks > Luigi >==================================================================== >Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione >email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa >tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56124 PISA (Italy) >fax: +39-50-568522 >==================================================================== Interesting. I'm having exactly the same problems. Runing nroff 3 or 4 times or compiling a lot seems to hang the system too. (18 reboots so far and about 20% of the srcdist compiled...). I've speculated that its because the machine isnt swapping, but i dont really know how id find out if this is the case.. Its pretty irritating to have it suddenly die on a friday night when you can only physically reboot the machine the coming monday ... Oh, i'm using a 386dx/25+387/25, 2x80M Caviar IDE drives. a ne1000 clone and the kernel is a 0.1 + 1.4 (?) patchkit with the X patches in it too.. (not that i have X running yet :( :() -jason