From: pep@wicked.demon.co.uk (Phil Packer) Subject: Re: Freeze up on X Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:00:25 +0000
In article <1993Jan21.181502.23485@miles.com> dennisf@miles.com (Dennis Flaherty) writes:
> In article <1993Jan21.030531.3702@news.uiowa.edu> miranda@suspicion.eng.uiowa.edu (Johann Miranda) writes:
> > Hello everyone. I have experienced the following problem in my machine and I
> > wonder if anybody else has.
> >
> > When I have xloadimage running a pic on the background and I have 2-3
> > other things going such as two editing sessions and (I think it was) a
> > telnet session, my 486/33 w 8megs RAM just froze...........
> >
> > Am I pushing too hard here? I mean, for my configuration... Only 8 megs swap.
> >
> > Has anyone else experienced the same problem?
> > Should I add more swap, more memory or should I run fewer things?
Ah, now I have a slightly different version of this...
Running 0.96pl3 with a WD8031 on IRQ3; I can reliably get a freeze just by
compiling the kernel. At that point I can type at the keyboard but can see
nothing - I can't even switch VCs. I can then unfreeze the system by sending
a single packet (any sort of packet - maybe a ping) to the ethernet card, and
the characters which I typed miraculously appear... Hmmm....
Maybe there is an sti() missing somewhere?
I think I can also get this to happen on 0.99pl1 as well - but it didnt
happen when I used a WD8003 card on a different interupt. I shall grab one from
work this week end to see if it makes any difference.
Phil
ps Apologies to anyone with whom I still have outstanding mail.. I will catch
up on my replies soonest...
PeP
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