From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 11 10:59:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA18655 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 10:59:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA18648 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 10:59:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA01163; Mon, 11 May 1998 10:59:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 10:59:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Andrew McNaughton cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: crashing while using lp0 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 May 1998, Andrew McNaughton wrote: > Hi > > I've got a new server box, currently at home while I set it up, and hooked > up to my laptop via a laplink cable. > > The machine is crashing (sometimes rebooting, sometimes just hangs), and it > always happens while the lp0 connection is being heavily used. > > If it's the lp driver and it's going to go away when I install the machine, > then it's not a big deal. If it's more general, and will continue when > communicating over ethernet, then it's a serious problem. It shouldn't crash on ethernet. Printer ports tend to be pretty flakey. If it does then you should examine your system's memory. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message