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Date:      Mon, 28 Jun 1999 08:04:08 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de>
To:        Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: setiathome crashes 3.2?
Message-ID:  <19990628080407.A43878@cicely8.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <199906280209.WAA76016@lakes.dignus.com>; from Thomas David Rivers on Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 10:09:22PM -0400
References:  <199906280209.WAA76016@lakes.dignus.com>

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On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 10:09:22PM -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote:
> 
> I seem to recall seeing this someone (this may not be the
> right list.)
> 
> But - I downloaded the 3.2  Seti@home and starting running it
> on a left-over 75mhz laptop I have.
> 
> It seems to crash the laptop (silently lock it up, actually)
> fairly quickly.
> 
> Did I recall someone else mentioning that?
> 
> Would everyone agree that it's not a "good thing" for a user-mode
> program to be able to lock up the OS?
> 
There are severall resons.
One of them is that I got panics with a to high set MAXUSER in kernel options.
I don't know if it's a problem with 3.2.
The other possible reason might be a CPU overheating. CPUs used under FreeBSD
are typicall suspended during idle-time - when running seti or other permanent
running programms there is no idle time.
I asume there are several more possbilities.
But it sounds like there is something broken with your configuration.

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B.Walter                  COSMO-Project              http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de             Usergroup                info@cosmo-project.de



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