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Date:      Mon, 13 May 1996 15:52:13 -0700
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Anthony Hill <ahill@interconnect.com.au>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, Joel Sutton <suttonj@interconnect.com.au>
Subject:   Re: Mystery freezes 2.1R 
Message-ID:  <199605132252.PAA01201@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 May 1996 16:21:39 %2B1000." <Pine.BSI.3.91.960513153412.19841A-100000@tulpi.interconnect.com.au> 

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> My 2.1R system is suffering from frequent virtual terminal, console and X 
> freezes. (about every half hour) I dont think the whole system is freezing, 
> as I often still see td/rd activity on the modem indicating that an ftp or 
> something is still going on over the ppp link. I only have one computer, 
> so I cant try to telnet in to see if anything is happening. The only way 
> I have discoved of escaping from this is to hit the "reset" button.

That's not nice.  :-(  Is there some specific program you're running that 
causes the crash?  Have you tried telnetting into the machine and checked 
systat -pigs, ps ax, top, etc. for a program that's hogging the CPU?  Does the 
same problem occur in other OSs (DOS, for instance)?  

If you can telnet in, do that and use shutdown instead of resetting it -- 
you're doing bad things to your filesystem.  

> The system is a 486DX2-66 noname with AMI BIOS, Soundblaster-16 + Creative 
> 2XCDROM, 2 x IDE conner 420MB hard disks, 12MB Ram, 1MB Trident SVGA, mouse 
> systems mouse. It is running stock 2.1R everything, and has Linux emulation 
> compiled in.
> 
> In which logs should I look, what should I look for, and is there some 
> sort of extended logging I should turn on to try and sort this out ? 

Are you _sure_ you didn't add anything?


Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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