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Date:      Tue, 17 Oct 1995 13:47:56 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        jon@pcca71.gallaudet.edu (Basket Case)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Keyboard locking up again along with potential answers/problems (I guess)
Message-ID:  <199510170417.NAA08404@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951015045403.449A-100000@pcca71.gallaudet.edu> from "Basket Case" at Oct 15, 95 04:57:06 am

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Basket Case stands accused of saying:
> I'm running 2.1.0-950928-SNAP on a p5-100 machine with 16 mb ram, 42 mb swap.
> When I was using the machine, I had a few things compiling at once, and so
> were a few of my users.  All of a sudden the machine locked up after I 
> switched virtual consoles.

This is a longstanding problem that nobody's been able to satisfactorily 
explain.

> What I am thinking the problem may be with that the keyboard 
> driver/daemon is thrown in the swap space and "dies".  I know a few of my 
> programs get thrown there and they never resume processing for some odd 
> reason, even if memory requirements reduce. =(  I guess the only way to fix
> this right now is to buy more memory...

The keyboard driver is part of the kernel.  It is never swapped.

> Jon

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