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Date:      Tue, 02 Sep 1997 15:42:05 -0500
From:      randyd <randyd@nconnect.net>
To:        Antti-Pekka Liedes <apl@mail.cs.hut.fi>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: serious instability with -current kernel
Message-ID:  <340C7A1D.473E47CD@nconnect.net>
References:  <19970902230144.44442@hutcs.cs.hut.fi>

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Antti-Pekka Liedes wrote:
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD-current on my Tyan Tomcat IIID dual pentium box, and
> I've lately had serious instability problems.  The latest working kernel I
> have was build on Aug 11th, all kernels after that crash randomly after
> about 2 minutes of use.  There's no error message or anything, just plain
> reboot.  The problem might be network related, it hasn't crashed if I
> haven't had any network connections yet.  The Aug 11th kernel works fine.
> I made world from fresh sources today.
> 
> Other hardware includes AHA-3940U, Matrox Millennium, and SMC EtherPower
> 10/100.

I've noticed similar behavior, but I spend most of my time running X and
don't
notice it there.  Try disabling moused and any screensaver you have in
your
/etc/rc.conf.  A while back the daemon saver did this to me.  Turning it
off, 
eliminated the problem.

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Randall D DuCharme       
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