From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 29 14: 6: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D3A815195 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 14:05:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA08150; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 08:57:52 +1200 (NZST) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 08:57:52 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Thomas David Rivers Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.2R Console hanging. In-Reply-To: <199907291122.HAA68267@lakes.dignus.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been running `setiathome' on FreeBSD 3.2R, having it generate > > output to the console for several months (it's nice to *see* the > > machine actually do something), and I've noticed that on some rare > > occasions (ie: twice in 3 months), that the console hangs. > > ... > > > > Has anyone else seen this problem? > > > > Jonathan Chen > > Yes - I reported the same problem about a month ago. The discussion > is in the -hackers mailing list archives. Glad to see I'm not the only one having the problem. Not so good to know that the problem exists.. [...] > There was some speculation (with which I'm not sure I agree) that > running setiathome causes the laptop to overheat... but, I've > run this laptop "full tilt" (doing big builds, etc...) for hours > without it ever overheating... I don't quite think it's got anything to do with overheating at all. I've had setiathome running on a separate screen while running X on another, running major compiles with no problems for hours. My machine's a P233 with 64M of RAM. Was your laptop connected to a network? One thing I have just recalled was that that the console hung usually shortly after sending the work-packet back over the 'Net via ppp. Some weird interference with the network code (unlikely as it sounds)? Jonathan Chen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message