Herb Peyerl wrote:
> In the meantime, I've replaced the hardware, it's now a P4-2.4Ghz
> with 1GB of RAM, and running NetBSD-1.6ZF of Nov 17th. It's now a
> single-cpu machine (as opposed to previously being a multi-cpu)
> and everything else is bog-standard modulo running altq with 
> cbq at 512kb/sec.

I wonder if altq might be the culprit? Any chance to run without
altq for a while?

Jaromir
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