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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!david
From: david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc)
Subject: Re: 386BSD hangs
Message-ID: <david.715668854@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au>
Sender: news@mel.dit.csiro.au
Organization: CSIRO DIT (Melb.)
References: <ZCO6TOH@desert.in-berlin.de>
Date:  5 Sep 92 04:54:14 GMT
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hell@desert.in-berlin.de (Steffen Hellwig) writes:

>Hallo world.
>I've some problems running 386BSD on my 386 40MHZ with an ADAPTEC 1542A
>I've installed 386BSD sucsessfully on a Fujutsu M2624FA SCSI Disk and every 
>thinks works fine.
>But sometimes, most often during heavy disk-io, the machine hangs without
>any comments.

>Anyone else noticed that strange thing?

I have had that happening. It usually happens when I do two large things
such as run GCC twice while under Xwindows.. The swapping will halt, and
the machine will go quiet. And stay that way.

Also, I have had problems where while swapping the IDE drive (which has
the swap partition, I have /usr files on a 'D:' SCSI drive (adaptec 1542b))
will pause, with the activity light on solid for maybe five seconds, then
resume. Any ideas?

>Bye.
>-- 
>hell@desert.in-berlin.de (Steffen Hellwig)
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