From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 13 16:33:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA06743 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 May 1996 16:33:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tulpi.interconnect.com.au (root@tulpi.interconnect.com.au [192.189.54.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA06707 for ; Mon, 13 May 1996 16:33:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ahill@localhost) by tulpi.interconnect.com.au id JAA24056 (8.7.4/IDA-1.6); Tue, 14 May 1996 09:31:12 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 09:31:09 +1000 (EST) From: Anthony Hill To: Doug White cc: questions@freebsd.org, Joel Sutton Subject: Re: Mystery freezes 2.1R In-Reply-To: <199605132252.PAA01201@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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