From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 13 01:28:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46FE216A4CE for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:28:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (joel.tallye.com [216.99.199.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE44B43D1F for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:28:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lorenl@alzatex.com) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (hosea.tallye.com [127.0.0.1]) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1D9Svbj004176 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:28:57 -0800 Received: (from sttng359@localhost) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10/Submit) id i1D9SvPI004174 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:28:57 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: hosea.tallye.com: sttng359 set sender to lorenl@alzatex.com using -f Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:28:57 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" To: FreeBSD Mailing list Message-ID: <20040213092856.GB2387@alzatex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="xXmbgvnjoT4axfJE" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc X-GPG-Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C Subject: FreeBSD Locked Up X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:28:59 -0000 --xXmbgvnjoT4axfJE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have been using FreeBSD 4.9 on a Compaq Presario laptop for about 3 1/2 months now without any troubles, and before that RedHat Linux for about a year and a half. Just yesterday morning though I awoke to find my system completely frozen, no screensaver was on, but I couldn't move the mouse pointer, switch vcs, or ssh in, though, strangely enough I could ping it. Is there anything I can do now to try and figure out why it might of crashed or is there any possible cause? Also, on reboot, I notice fsck took a considerable time to check the disk, though nothing major was found that interrupted the boot process. Is this because FreeBSD doesn't use a journalling filesystem? I think I read somewhere that FreeBSD chose to use a filesystem with soft updates over a journalling one because it provides relatively equal data integrity compared to a journalling one, but is more efficient with the order of writing data, but does this mean that FreeBSD will always take longer to recover from a crash? --=20 I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C =20 --xXmbgvnjoT4axfJE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFALJjY+vN6RuSjKAwRAnOuAJ9xn3fw4og+rFSvDJlpkMQz8hco7gCfe5pF V4U5uftz/hn8CaRA9VeQAyA= =tVDw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xXmbgvnjoT4axfJE--