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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: SO DO I: PROBLEM WITH HANGING KERNEL AFTER HEAVY
Message-ID: <hastyC8090y.Exv@netcom.com>
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References: <1993May31.180743.18903@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 17:38:57 GMT
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In article <1993May31.180743.18903@vlsi.polymtl.ca> big@von-neumann (Patrick Drolet) writes:
>I've also experienced problems with netBSD 0.8 while rebuilding an xfree
>X386 kernel.  I've got 32 megs of swap & 8 megs of ram.
>
>Before it hangs, my swapinfo tells me that all (32 megs) the swap area is
>being used, but I have to run swapinfo (with a script looping on swapinfo
>every 5 seconds) to know the problem.  The OS doesn't tell me that swap area
>is fully used.
>
>Maybe I'll try to build the X386 kernel using gcc 1.x instead of 2.x
>

Well, I have build XS3 with gcc-2.3.3 several times and NetBSD-0.8
refuses to hang :-)

And, I have slip and NFS up and running.
This morning I re-booted our NFS server and the other NFS client
after the server came up had no problems in seeing the nfs mounted
partition -- very, very cool.

The sore note is that I was trying to mount a low density DOS floppy
which cause the system to hang not cool at all.


Enjoy,
Amancio

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