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On Aug 20, 2007, at 8:12 AMAug 20, 2007,  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm running an ircd (derived from unrealircd) on a FreeBSD 5.5- 
> Release.
> Most times it runs totally okay but sometimes (not reproducable)
> the process freezes with state "*inp" shown with "top".

At the risk of sounding rude, the 5.x series of FreeBSD is  
deprecated.  I'm running UnrealIRCd on a few different FreeBSD  
systems, and I've never had any problems.  Try running on 6.2-RELEASE  
and I'm sure you won't have any problems.
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Eric F Crist
Secure Computing Networks