On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 07:31:58PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> while my first freezes were the effect of problems with PS/2 connector,
> now it's definitely software problem.
> 
> i experience hard crashes with X 4.2.0 NetBSD snapshot with pentium-133
> and PCI Riva 128.
> 
> 95% of them is when i use xpdf, another 5% with xpdf in memory and used
> before. it's always same scenario: mouse pointer freezes, there are lot of
> disk activity for 5-10 seconds, then full freeze so i have to press reset.
> nothing is written by syslogd.

Can you try to run 'top' somewhere to watch the used RAM and swap ?
Maybe something goes mad and eat all resources.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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