no i didnt
a couple of people responded asking for more info, but
no-one has suggested any steps to solving the problem.
in fact what i tend to do now is reboot the machine before its
been up too long, because if it hangs i cant reboot it remotely.

there must be some way of finding out the cause of a hang, even if its
to set kernel debugging on and generating loads of logs, but whatever
it is i'd like to know!

i'll let you know if i find anything out

On Wed, 14 May 1997, Bruce Walker wrote:

> At 10:57 AM 29-03-97 +0000, you wrote:
> >
> > I'm running NetBSD 1.2 on a pentium 90 with 32 MB ram and a Seagate
> > scsi hard drive (with an Adaptec adaptor). Its connected to a LAN.
> > 
> > The problem is that approximately a week after each reboot, the machine
> > just hangs. There are no console msgs, and the message log contains 
> > nothing.
> 
> Did you ever find out what's going on with this?  I'm interested
> because I'm getting a very similar symptom now on a similar machine.
> I'm running NetBSD 1.2 on a P133 with 32MB but with an EIDE drive.
> My ethernet interface is an AMD PCnet32 PCI card.
> 
> About 5-6 days after a reboot, the box "freezes".  I can ping it,
> but no new processes can start.  No panics, no messages, silence.
> 
> This has only started to happen after the box became a busy server.
> It runs Samba (1.9.16p11) and Apache (1.2b8).  But the last hang
> occurred last night during a non-busy period (between 10:00pm and
> 11:00pm).
> 
> Any hints welcome!
> 
> -bmw
>