From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 13 17:38:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA11771 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 May 1996 17:38:43 -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 RAA11766 for ; Mon, 13 May 1996 17:38:38 -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 RAA02245; Mon, 13 May 1996 17:39:29 -0700 Message-Id: <199605140039.RAA02245@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 "Tue, 14 May 1996 09:31:09 +1000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 17:39:28 -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, > > 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. I wish I could point to something, but nothing sticks out. > > > 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. Oh well. My box's keyboard occaisionally locks up, so I telnet in from my laptop and shut it down. > > >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. Ok, it's not specifically hardware then. > > > 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 ? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major