Subject: Re: recent instability
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: John R. Shannon <john@johnrshannon.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/20/2006 05:47:28
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Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> Two days ago, I upgraded to 3.99.18 from 17 April.  Since then, my laptop
> has frozen once and spontaneously rebooted once.  Has anyone else seen
> that sort of instability?
> 
> 		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

Yes, on a dual Xeon machine I'm seeing lockups per day. I'm unable to 
get any indication of what is causing the problem.

-- 
John R. Shannon, CISSP
john@johnrshannon.com
jshannon@dsci-usa.com
john.r.shannon@us.army.mil
shannonjr@NetBSD.org

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