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On 28 March 2010 13:18, Masoom Shaikh <masoom.shaikh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Masoom Shaikh wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello List,
>>>
>>> I was a happy FreeBSD user, just before I installed FreeBSD8.0-RC1. Since
>>> then, system randomly just freezes, and there is no option other than hard
>>> boot. I guessed this will get solved in 8.0-RELEASE, but it was not :(
>>
>> I wild shot - did you try disabling superpages?
>
> umm, how do I do that ?

Set

vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled=0

in /boot/loader.conf and reboot. Report back if it helps or not.