From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 13 15:51:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA02982 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 May 1996 15:51:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA02959 for ; Mon, 13 May 1996 15:51:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from LOCALHOST (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA01201; Mon, 13 May 1996 15:52:14 -0700 Message-Id: <199605132252.PAA01201@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu: Host LOCALHOST didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: Anthony Hill cc: questions@freebsd.org, Joel Sutton Subject: Re: Mystery freezes 2.1R In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 13 May 1996 16:21:39 +1000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 15:52:13 -0700 From: Doug White Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -------- > My 2.1R system is suffering from frequent virtual terminal, console and X > freezes. (about every half hour) I dont think the whole system is freezing, > as I often still see td/rd activity on the modem indicating that an ftp or > something is still going on over the ppp link. I only have one computer, > so I cant try to telnet in to see if anything is happening. The only way > I have discoved of escaping from this is to hit the "reset" button. That's not nice. :-( Is there some specific program you're running that causes the crash? Have you tried telnetting into the machine and checked systat -pigs, ps ax, top, etc. for a program that's hogging the CPU? Does the same problem occur in other OSs (DOS, for instance)? If you can telnet in, do that and use shutdown instead of resetting it -- you're doing bad things to your filesystem. > The system is a 486DX2-66 noname with AMI BIOS, Soundblaster-16 + Creative > 2XCDROM, 2 x IDE conner 420MB hard disks, 12MB Ram, 1MB Trident SVGA, mouse > systems mouse. It is running stock 2.1R everything, and has Linux emulation > compiled in. > > In which logs should I look, what should I look for, and is there some > sort of extended logging I should turn on to try and sort this out ? Are you _sure_ you didn't add anything? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major