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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!pipex!sunic!isgate!veda.is!adam From: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 0.9 NetBSD hangs Message-ID: <CD99r9.zD@veda.is> Date: 12 Sep 93 19:20:54 GMT References: <26tidf$luo@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU> <26v1l7$bnk@pessoa.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland Lines: 24 rsk@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bob Kemp) writes: >In <26tidf$luo@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU> marty@TC.Cornell.EDU (Marty Faltesek) writes: >>With 0.9 NetBSD, every day or so, the machine hangs after >>executing an arbitrary command. I have a 386DX-33 with >>X running, and 8 megs. >I get this too. It never happened under 386bsd but can sometimes occur >several times an hour under NetBSD (or not occur in a whole evening). I have seen this occur in FreeBSD, NetBSD 0.9 or pk0.2.4, perhaps it has been with us from the start. Some hardware seems to work with these drivers, some definitely doesn't work. >When I enquired, Theo Deraadt told me it was to do with the new >interrupt system and they don't (didn't) know how to fix it yet. If >anyone has a temporary patch I'd be interested. The driver that I am using recovers every x minutes, where x tends to vary randomly between 0 and 120. I get a crash about once a day as a side effect. -- adam@veda.is