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From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
To: <johann@broadpark.no>, <questions@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Dead screens problem
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:57:16 -0700
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From what I understand, 8M is the minimum required for a FBSD install so
16M should be OK.  But if you're running X windows, maybe you need more?

The hangs I am experiencing are complete system freezes.  The machine
will not respond at all.  Not at the console, not to pings, not to
anything.  The only thing I can do is power off/on and then the machine
runs fine for a while.  It will run weeks as long as I don't do heavy
compiling or upgrade my ports database.

Another person was having unexplained reboots.  He went back to 4.4p9
and they cleared up.  I've seen similar complaints from a few others.

So it sounds like your situation is different than mine.  Good luck on
your search for resolution!

Drew

----- Original Message -----
From: <johann@broadpark.no>
To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 1:10 AM
Subject: Re: Dead screens problem


> No, the screen just appears dead. I can always resume it, though I'm
lead to
> believe a screen -wipe is the right thing to do.
>
> The gateway runs on 16MBs of RAM; might that be a problem?
>
> What sort of hangs are you experiencing?
>
> -- Johann
>
> Quoting Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <johann@broadpark.no>
> > To: <questions@freebsd.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 10:31 AM
> > Subject: Dead screens problem
> >
> >
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > Every time I run some process like makeworld or portupgrade on my
> > gateway under
> > > screen, it always ends up dead the next time I check on it.
> > >
> > > I don't know why, but would really like to know.
> > >
> > > Has anyone been in my shoes?
> >
> > Are you saying that your system "hangs" sometimes during heavy
> > processing?  If so, most of the time it's a hardware problem like a
bad
> > RAM chip.  But there are a few of us that have experienced random
> > "hangs" after upgrading to 4.5 on systems that were fine with prior
> > releases.
> >
> > Drew
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>


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