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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!JUTS!griffin!gab10 From: gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Occasional system hangs Keywords: n Message-ID: <a0x9021N2ehg01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Date: 12 Dec 92 00:04:37 GMT References: <1g95ueINNhri@manuel.anu.edu.au> <andrewh.724059111@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au> <1gaclpINN84v@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> <1992Dec11.210430.17335@coe.montana.edu> Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com Organization: Amdahl Corporation Lines: 24 In article <1992Dec11.210430.17335@coe.montana.edu>, osynw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: > In article <1gaclpINN84v@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> > news@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (InterNet News) writes: > >-Time for more RAM I guess! > >> > > > > I don't think more RAM will help. I have 32M of RAM and and 32M > swap > >partition. It still hangs. nroff is the usual culprit for me. > > The fix for this is to fix G++, re-compile it, and then recompile > groff > with the fixed GCC. The patch for g++ will be in the next patchkit. > [If I ever get it finished :-(] This might be a problem but are you sure it is not simply masking another? A bum compile of a user level program should never cause the system to hang. Shouldn't Andrew still be able to ping his system? -- Gary Browning | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a | great idea hits you, and just before you realize | what is wrong with it.