From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 4 02:52:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA18843 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 02:52:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail12.digital.com (mail12.digital.com [192.208.46.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA18831 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 02:52:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cssmuc.frt.dec.com (cssmuc.frt.dec.com [16.186.96.161]) by mail12.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.5/1.0/WV) with SMTP id FAA13544 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 05:48:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mofo.frt.dec.com by cssmuc.frt.dec.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Nov95-0232PM) id AA07119; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 11:48:30 +0200 Received: from mofo.frt.dec.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mofo.frt.dec.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA04577 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 11:47:00 GMT Message-Id: <199709041147.LAA04577@mofo.frt.dec.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message from "S\xren Schmidt" of Thu, 04 Sep 1997 09:15:28 +0200. Reply-To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Subject: Re: Current unusable :( Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 11:47:00 +0000 From: Gary Jennejohn Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id CAA18837 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk shouldn't this really go to current ? "S\xren Schmidt" writes: > > > I just found out that -current is hosed, try run the linuxulator and > then start up a moderately big app (eg StarWriter), and the system > just hangs no panic no nothing just a hang.... > > Seems this has been for awhile, a 970827 kernel fails too... > I've seen similar things, but in my case the disks were being used heavily and I then started up xvile -> hang. I couldn't even ping the machine any more. Under moderate disk activity I haven't noticed any problems. I use SCSI. So far it's happened twice, and _only when X is running_. I'm using the SVGA server with a Matrox Millenium, BTW. --- Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com (home) garyj@muc.de (play) gj@freebsd.org