Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 19:22:15 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.2R Console hanging. Message-ID: <379FBAD7.36A94043@3-cities.com> References: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9907291324380.757-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz>
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Jonathan Chen wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been running `setiathome' on FreeBSD 3.2R, having it generate > output to the console for several months (it's nice to *see* the > machine actually do something), and I've noticed that on some rare > occasions (ie: twice in 3 months), that the console hangs. > > The first time it happened, I'd thought that the machine had hung, > but on the 2nd time, I noticed that it'd still accepted keyboard > input. Everything else appears to work fine, and the only data-point I > have is that I'm generating heaps of output continously to the console > for an extended period of time. > > Nothing else of significance was running on the machine: std daemons, > xdm (not the active screen though), ppp. > > Has anyone else seen this problem? I'm also running it but haven't seen it. I think I have processed 100 WU's on my FreeBSD system since I started running it at the end of May. I'm also running 3.2-Stable. There were a few strange things in 3.2R that affected my system but 3.2S runs from one buildworld to the next. For what it is worth, I am running setiathome in an x-window so that I continue to have access to the machine. I have had it die when the demand dial gets out of sync with it but that is all. It tries back in an hour, which brings up the demand dial. PPP must connect too slowly because my dial in system hangs up after 10 minutes of inactivity and it didn't send a result. You might cvsup to 3.2-Stable and then try a buildworld and see if you have a system problem of some sort. Buildworlds seem to flush some of them out :-). Kent > > Jonathan Chen > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > "A person should be able to do a small bit of everything, > specialisation is for insects" > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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