From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 16 20:46:19 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA07609 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 20:46:19 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA07596 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 20:45:49 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA08404; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 13:47:56 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199510170417.NAA08404@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Keyboard locking up again along with potential answers/problems (I guess) To: jon@pcca71.gallaudet.edu (Basket Case) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 13:47:56 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Basket Case" at Oct 15, 95 04:57:06 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1172 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[