On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 13:07:18 +0200
> From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
> To: Richard Rauch <rkr@rkr.kcnet.com>
> Cc: netbsd-help@netbsd.org, port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: System freezes under X.
> 
> On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 02:14:05PM -0500, Richard Rauch wrote:
> >  [...]
> > 
> > Has anyone seen similar problems?  This does NOT happen during normal use
> > (e.g., the daily events at 3am run normally; email is sent & received;
> > one can telnet or FTP, etc...).  It ONLY seems to happen when one makes
> > heavy use of the CPU while X is up and running.
> 
> Is it possible that your kernel falls into the debugger ?
> You could try to recmpile a kernel without 'options DDB' and see if you
> get a core dump ...

One core, produced by crashing Quake II.

So, should I just wait for 1.4.1, and hope that it gets fixed in a general
round of bug-fixes?  Or are there things that I should check (either with
the .core corpse, or with a life DDB session after re-enabling the
debugger)?


  "I probably don't know what I'm talking about."  --rkr@rkr.kcnet.com