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Subject: PPP sometimes kills the OS
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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 10:00:40 -0800 (PST)
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As Mark Valentine recenetly said ->

"For two or three weeks I've been getting a hang (in X) or silent reboot
(not in X) *only* when bringing my PPP link up or down (about once every
4-5 connections, with kernel PPP)."

I concur with a -current about two weeks old.

Dropping into ddb shows "sleepy" processes

      flag stat   wmesg     wchan
sleep 4006    3   lockrd    f0246068
ppd      6    3   lockrd    f0246068
kermit 106    3   lockrd    f0246068

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Mostyn Lewis