Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 09:31:09 +1000 (EST) From: Anthony Hill <ahill@interconnect.com.au> To: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Joel Sutton <suttonj@interconnect.com.au> Subject: Re: Mystery freezes 2.1R Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960514092348.23306A-100000@tulpi.interconnect.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199605132252.PAA01201@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, 13 May 1996, Doug White wrote: > -------- > > 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? I dont know - nothing obvious - it has happened once when I was not running X, which up until that point had been a suspect. I have been running pppd each time - but as I said, it still seems to be running. This is why I was hoping something would turn up in the logs. > Have you tried telnetting into the machine and checked > systat -pigs, ps ax, top, etc. for a program that's hogging the CPU? I only have one computer, so I cant try to telnet in to see if anything is happening. >Does the same problem occur in other OSs (DOS, for instance)? No, I have been using DOS/windows a lot lately (because of this problem), and it is fine. > If you can telnet in, do that and use shutdown instead of resetting it -- > you're doing bad things to your filesystem. Yeah, I know - I really need to fix this soon. > > 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? No, but if it is something I added - it took a while to have this effect. Anthony
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