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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Subject: Re: Occasional system hangs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.070038.2146@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
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- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 07:00:38 GMT
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- In article <andrewh.724059111@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au> andrewh@cs.monash.edu.au (Andrew Herbert) writes:
- >My system, with 16 MB RAM and 32 MB swap, hangs in a similar way. Existing
- >processes such as INN processing incoming news and nntplinks sending outgoing
- >news usually keep ticking away for quite some time (i.e. disk is unaffected),
- >but it looks a whole lot like anything requiring a fork(), such as programs
- >are run from the shell just hangs. Eventually all processes grind to a halt,
- >but the system can still be pinged. The VM problem sounds quite a likely
- >cause, alas. gcc 2.3.1 is particularly good at bringing about this problem,
- >while X8514 and friends rarely lasts more than 12 hours without hanging 386bsd
- >and requiring a reboot.
- >
- >Time for more RAM I guess!
-
- I have a box with 16M of RAM and the initial 5M swap that install likes to
- give you.
-
- hecate 11 % uptime
- 1:03am up 7 days, 13:31, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
- hecate 12 %
-
- Of course nothing much is going on now, but I have been using it pretty
- heavily lately. The last reboot was intentional on my part to apply one
- of the recently posted kernel patches (one of Julians, I think).
-
- I can still crash it by "ping -f"'ing another computer for 30 minutes or
- so, but I believe this is related more to my ethernet driver (I haven't
- updated to the latest one of the AT&T STARLan cards yet) than any kernel
- problems. It's been highly stable for more than a month now.
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
- terry_lambert@novell.com
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- or previous employers.
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