From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 29 14:12:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.vnet.net (smtp1.vnet.net [166.82.1.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58B4715195 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 14:12:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp1.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA28917; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 17:10:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA10861; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 17:10:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.2/8.6.9) id RAA72780; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 17:10:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 17:10:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199907292110.RAA72780@lakes.dignus.com> To: jonc@pinnacle.co.nz, rivers@dignus.com Subject: Re: 3.2R Console hanging. Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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)? Well - yes - it is connected to a network. It's an internal network with a separate gateway to the outside world. The connection is via an NE2000 PCMCIA card. The hangs I see are that the machine is totally dead. (I'm also doing this under X) - I can't ping it, I can't do anything on the keyboard (to kill X) and there's no mouse movement... the machine is just dead. - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message