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- From: fpm@crash.cts.com (Frank Maclachlan)
- Subject: Re: Occasional system hangs
- Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
- Date: 11 Dec 92 14:28:22 PST
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.142822.6314@crash>
- Summary: FPU can lockup system
- References: <1g95ueINNhri@manuel.anu.edu.au> <andrewh.724059111@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au> <1gaclpINN84v@hrd769.brooks.af.mil>
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- > I don't think more RAM will help. I have 32M of RAM and and 32M swap
- >partition. It still hangs. nroff is the usual culprit for me.
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- I had the same problem. My system system would lock up completely from
- time to time. Nroff seemed to be particularly troublesome. I resolved
- it by removing my ULSI 80387 fpu. You can see if this is the problem
- by modifying npxprobe() in '/sys/i386/isa/npx.c' to not find the fpu
- and return 0. This causes the fpu to be ignored.
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- Hope this helps,
- Frank MacLachlan
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