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- From: pep@wicked.demon.co.uk (Phil Packer)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!wicked.demon.co.uk!pep
- Subject: Re: Freeze up on X
- Reply-To: pep@wicked.demon.co.uk
- References: <1993Jan21.181502.23485@miles.com> <1993Jan21.030531.3702@news.uiowa.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:00:25 +0000
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- 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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